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Tax Season Opens, Tax Spam Follows

22

Jan

2012

The IRS officially kicked off the beginning of tax season in the US, and just right in time for it are the cybercriminals who are already taking advantage and using tax-related messages as a social engineering lure.We’ve recently spotted samples of spammed messages posing as a notice from Fidelity Investments, a well-known American financial institution.The […]

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Spam: “Federal Tax payment canceled / Rejected Federal Tax payment ” and twistloft.com

05

Dec

2011

There’s nothing particularly new with this IRS spam, but because spammers are stupid, all the examples that I have seen today have an invalid link and cannot be clicked through. Here is a sample: Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:29:03 +0100 From: Bernadine_Woody@irs.gov Subject: Federal Tax payment canceled Your Tax payment (ID: […]

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Spammers are stupid

01

Dec

2011

What’s wrong with this spam? Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:55:30 +0900 From: “LinkedIn” [linkedin@em.linkedin.com] To: Victim Subject: So now you’re on LinkedIn: What’s next? The ACH transaction (ID: 730771521612), recently sent from your checking account (by you or any other person), was canceled by the other financial institution. Rejected transfer […]

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