Spam (not From) The Internal Revenue Service
Phishing Scan that looks like official correspondence., DC

This morning I received an email that stated it was from the Internal Revenue Service and that I had a $240.59 refund due to me. All I would have to do would be to follow the simple instructions on the attachment and it would be mailed within a few days.

The attachment "address code" ended in a.De so I knew right away this was a scam and reported the email as spam. If the "address code" had ended in a. Gov, I would have looked at it carefully - but when I dug a little deeper into Google, I found out that the Internal Revenue Service never sends out emails. They always use the US Postal Service for their official correspondence.

The Google articles also said this was a well-known "phishing" scheme to get personal information such as name, address, Social Security number, bank routing information, etc.

I am posting this as a warning for other people to be aware of in the future. I did not fall for the scheme and I hope no one else wiil either and I hope that I may have helped at least one person.

Company: Spam (not From) The Internal Revenue Service
Country: USA
State: District of Columbia
City: Washington
Address: Washington, DC

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