No Data Transmission: Tax Administration Warns Against Fraudulent E-Mails and SMS
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If you are promised a tax refund by SMS or e-mail, the alarm bells should immediately scream. Because this is how fraudsters currently aim for personal data.
A cyberattack has just hit the government's tax website and hundreds of thousands of taxpayers have received a fraudulent e-mail. On Tuesday, August 18, the Directorate General for Public Finance (DGFiP) announced that it has informed individuals whose tax data may have been accessed or extracted during this cyberattack. A total of 678,000 individuals and professionals would be involved, while approximately 200,000 accounts in the cadastral file…
If you are promised a tax refund by SMS or e-mail, the alarm bells should immediately scream. Because this is how fraudsters currently aim for personal data.
Since Monday, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers have received an official tax message informing them that their data has leaked. How do you react if you are concerned?
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