IRS: Important information

Unfortunately for the spammers, we do not report to the US IRS. Secondly, if the IRS ever had to send us an e-mail, we are sure this is the last e-mail address they would use. We will most definitely receive more spam after publishing this example.



Very personal, isn't it? ....



According to irs.gov: "An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number, and is used to identify a business entity."

We are sure the IRS have some backups, so in an event like this, they will simply restore your information from a backup, but in any case, getting erased from the IRS database, is nearly impossible.

But this makes the scam even more ridiculous, how can you confirm your EIN if it has been deleted. Against what will it be validated?



So we guess you will now have a clean slate with the IRS. Many people will be quite glad about this, but sorry to burst your bubble if you haven't filed your tax return for a couple of years, this is a scam, so nothing you read in this e-mail is true.

This is not your typical phishing scam, each link in this e-mail points to a different phishing site and some anti-spam websites have reported that certain links are even malware related.

All the links in the examples we investigated so far pointed to websites that were already taken down or cleaned up, so we haven't been able to confirm whether the main purpose of these examples are phishing or malware related, however it has all the characteristics of a phishing e-mail so we decided to classify it as a phishing scam.

Also refer to the following IRS Phishing scam example. It looks basically the same as this one, but the story is a bit different.