: Phishing scams take advantage of tax season
Tax season often sees an increase in phishing scams and this year is no different. MessageLabs Intelligence has seen an increase in the volume of tax related scams in mid-February and throughout March. In fact, on March 20th 48 per cent of all malicious mail was tax-related phishing with the majority alleging to be from the UK's tax office, Her Madjesty's Revenue and Customs, or the US tax office, Internal Revenue Service.
Phish use social engineering to try and fool the recipient into giving away personal information and credit card details and unlike 419 scams, they are characterized by grammatically correct language and sophisticated, convincing web pages.
For more information on tax-related phishing scams, please visit Symantec.cloud’s blog: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/stay-safe-online-during-tax-time
Please let me know if you’re interested in speaking with a Symantec.cloud expert about phishing scams.
Thanks,
Natasha
Example of a sophisticated phishing web page:
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