Notification of Tax Refund on your VISA or MasterCard Now

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Now here is one that would be nice, and may even fool a few people. No big promises, just a small refund of $279.30 from the IRS. All I need to do is visit the site, enter my personal information so it can be exploited and I get a line of bull that the check is on the way. They even throw in a statement about fraud! Of course, like all scams, there are misspellings.

Here it is:

Notification of Tax Refund on your VISA or MasterCard Now,

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $279.30.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.

Fox example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

To access the form for your tax refund please click the link below :

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/refund/id=96596,00.asp which is really
http://62.189.70.149:443/IRS/refunds.php
which is a computer located in the UNITED KINGDOM serviced by VIVAT HOLDINGS LTD

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

© Copyright 2007, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A.

Does the IRS even place copyright statements on their information? I don’t think so :)

3 Responses to “Notification of Tax Refund on your VISA or MasterCard Now”

  1. Zach Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    I received this same e-mail. The one thing that seemed strange is that it comes from refund@irs.gov
    I’ve seen lots of these scam e-mails, but this is the first time I’ve seen one coming from an accurate domain name. How is that possible?

  2. Administrator Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    Any email can be forged like this - It is very common to receive emails that look like they came from a legitimate source.

    If you look at the links they provide you, you’ll see they don’t goto a .gov site, but a phishing site.

  3. Jeff B Says:
    April 27th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    Isn’t there someplace we can report this to? The link itself (in the email I got anyway) actually links to (DO NOT CLICK!) myglobalbusinessonline dot info/forum/images/info.php” so i think it’s pretty easy to identify the owner of this. The guy should be arrested. But who exactly do you report it to?

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