Scam E-mails Related to Unpaid Tax Strike Washington’s Businesses and Citizens

Scammers have yet pounced, this time, aiming businesses and citizens to whom they're dispatching fake e-mails directing that they should clear tax payment of the amount due to the state, published blscourierherald.com dated January 11, 2015.

Addressing recipients of the fraudulent e-mail, the message cites the Revenue Department that has approached the Secretary-of-State alternatively courts of county probate whereby the taxpayer must fulfill one cash-by-wire-transfer deposit prior to January 20. But actually, both the fax number and e-mail id for the Department mentioned within the e-mail are illegitimate.

As per Carol K. Nelson Director of Revenue, taxpayers mustn't ever falter towards validating the legitimacy of any unanticipated message regarding tax yet-to-be-paid. Blscourierherald.com published this.

The Director continues that incase a message that somebody sends while asserts he's the Department's representative raises doubt for the recipient then that recipient should contact the Department at the phone-numbers given on its online site.

He adds that the above is the most genuine method for safeguarding oneself from scammers.

If any enterprise has overdue tax, the Department will communicate with him for arranging the payment. The said kind of schemes mean scammers' attempt at exploiting people's anxiety associated with unpaid taxes.

The Department, each annum, learns from taxpayers regarding fake e-mails that the agency's employees supposedly sent.

To get additional information, users require visiting http://dor.wa.gov the website for the Department.

Disturbingly, it isn't solely Washington (USA) which has had tax-themed fraudulent electronic mails, but other taxpayers too have received such messages leaving them panicky as well as indeterminate about the e-mails' authenticity, security analysts remark.

Thus, Somerset, England situated South Somerset District Council lately got report from an inhabitant who said that a few inhabitants of South Somerset had got scam e-mail related to Council Tax. Westerngazette.co.uk published this, January 8, 2015.

Apparently, an inhabitant mentioned about one e-mail that told him he had a tax payment due to the Council because of non-processing of the payment, so he should follow one web-link for making his records up-to-date. But the Council clarified that it didn't dispatch e-mails of that kind as also wouldn't request for record update in that method.

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