Electronic mails posing as messages from Internal Revenue Service caution recipients that they've been penalized for exceeding the scheduled time-period towards filing their returns; however, they may follow a given web-link and request to get an exemption. Hoax-slayer published this dated February 8, 2012.
Using one catchy header: "A monetary penalty notification," the IRS-spoofed fake e-mail states that the agency wishes to notify the recipient that he must pay a fine on account of non-submission of his tax return before January 31, 2012. It (the message) then requests for the recipient's attention to IRS [Section 6038(b) (1)], which apparently issues a $10,000 worth monetary penalty for all [Forms 5471], which are dispatched following the last date scheduled for submitting taxpayers' IT alternatively, don't contain the accurate information specified within [Section 6038(a)]. However, businesses, which can convince that their non-submission by the specified deadline was because of acceptable reasons, will be exempted from the penalty. Therefore, the user requires visiting the IRS website and knowing the details, the e-mail concludes.
Meanwhile, the e-mail isn't surely from the tax-agency, IRS while the late-submission penalty too doesn't exist as it so attempts at duping users that they may proceed to click the mentioned web-link. However, the web-link only leads onto a fake site that mimics the original IRS site.
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