Advisory to Tax Payers Against Phishing
Mails
Information has been received from several
quarters that emails are being received by taxpayers claiming to be sent by the
Income Tax Department asking the taxpayers to download file containing payable
tax details. Such phishing mails are being sent from email addresses like
"incometaxindia.gov.india@gmail.com".
It is
clarified that the Income Tax Department does not send any communication from
private email addresses such as gmail, yahoo etc. Taxpayers are cautioned that
they should not respond to such phishing mails and avoid downloading any
attachment , which may contain virus or malicious software.
Taxpayers
are advised to visit “Report Phishing” button on National Website of Income Tax
Department i.e. www.incometaxindia.gov.in in
case they receive such phishing mails.
Source : PIB Release, 14.07.2014
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