In Germany, the Finance Ministry has issued an alert to people paying taxes for remaining vigilant about a new e-mail scam that's offering tax refunds. Theregister.co.uk reported this on May 10, 2011.
States the phishing e-mail to the recipient (taxpayer), he can get 378.25 euro in refund merely if he enters plentiful personal information into an attached HTML form. Subsequently, the e-mail utilizes pictures downloaded from the real Finance Ministry of Germany such that the scam may actually appear legitimate.
Nevertheless, the ministry in response enforced an approach that would effectively caution probable victims. Also, because the scammers replicated the HTML-code of the ministry's Internet site, the federal finance ministry responded quickly and put the tagged images in place of the original ones rather than post an alert onto the website.
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