Monday, December 8, 2008

IRS Tax Refund Scam

Please delete any messages you receive with the following text claiming to be from the IRS with information about a tax refund/stimulus package refund. Do not submit your personal information as the web site you are directed to is a scam.

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After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a Stimulus Payment.
Please submit the Stimulus Payment Online Form in order to process it.

A Stimulus Payment can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your Stimulus Payment, please follow next URL:

http://www.bebeseguro.net/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/visualchars/_vti_cnf

Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time.
Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated.

Regards,
Internal Revenue Service

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Postcard Virus Warning




Please do not open an e-mail attachment that appears to be a Hallmark Greeting Card. The attachment is named Postcard.zip and contains a virus that will attempt to infect the system you're using at the time. If you have received this message just delete it ASAP.