Tax return: the Revenue Agency does not write emails to report violations

L’Revenue Agency does not send e-mail are hypothetical violations which concern the presentation of the tax declaration: a new, umpteenth, campaign of deceptive communications that exploits the institutional credibility to carry out fraudulent actions.

The alarm, which comes fromFinancial administration in the afternoon of December 1, 2023invites you not to follow up on the letter that arrives in your email inbox.

Email on possible violations of the tax return: the alter of the Revenue Agency

The technique used to detect fraud through reporting emails hypothetical violations relating to tax declaration sent or not sent by the taxpayer is always that of phishing.

It exploits the credibility of institutional bodiesemulating their communication, to deceive recipients by inviting them to fill in formproviding gods dataor to download malicious files. In this case, you look for a contact and then carry out the scam at a later time.

With the’notice dated December 1stl’Revenue Agency in addition to reporting the extraneousness with the messages in circulation, it indicates the elements that characterize them deceptive emails:

• the address they came from does not have a institutional domain;
• have as their object “Tax Assessment” and bear the signature of the Director of the Revenue Agency.

There is also one attached letter which reports more details which concern the alleged violations relating to tax declaration characterized by the following elements:

• MEF and Revenue Agency logos;
• grammatical errors, punctuation errors and omissions;
• sense of urgency;
• threat of possible legal action, prison sentences and fines;
• signature of an institutional entity that does not belong to the financial administration.

The invitation that comes fromRevenue Agency for the recipients of the email is that of “do not click on links in e-mails, do not provide personal data during any telephone calls related to this type of phenomenon and do not contact the sender of any communications”.

The general recommendation is always to consult the institutional page of monitoring on phishing in case of suspicious messages in your email inbox.