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Cybercriminals Threaten Tax Day Once Again

05

Apr

2013

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) opened up the filing season on January 30, 2013 to help taxpayers prepare for the looming April 15 tax deadline. April 15 or colloquially known as Tax Day is when individual income tax returns are due to the federal government. Typical of cybercriminals, they have also prepared their own tax-related scams for taxpayers with scams […]

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Malware spammed out widely posing as income tax email

04

Feb

2013

A malware campaign has been spammed out widely, seemingly taking advantage of an important date in the US tax system’s calendar.January 31st is the deadline for US employers to deliver the W-2 form to all of their workers, used to help calculate the total wages earned by an individual during the course of the year.So, […]

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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: [email protected] Subject: Federal Tax payment canceled Your Tax payment (ID: […]

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