Accounting firm Hallmark Accounting situated within Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) is alerting netizens for remaining watchful about phishing e-mails asserting they are from ATO (Australian Taxation Office), thus published thecourier.com.au in news dated December 11, 2011.
Reportedly, according to a Hallmark employee Jim Hall, two separate incidences were lately cited in which clients of the firm complained to ATO in connection with different phishing scams, published thecourier.com.au.
Exhibiting the ATO's authorized logo, one e-mail from the two told the recipient that the Tax Office was unhappy to inform that he had been erroneous in one part whilst filing his latest tax returns. It was therefore requested that he rectify the error followed with dispatching the corrected version of the file return to the agency handling his tax payments at the earliest, the e-mail added. Moreover, he was requested to click one given web-link, the e-mail ended, according to Hall.
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