IRS E-Mail Scam
Written by Marlo .
This is a site about business insurance, so this post may be a bit out of context.
There is a phishing/trojan e-mail scam going around. The e-mail (got one this morning) is very official looking. It claims to come from the IRS and claims that the recipient has “unreported” or “under-reported” income. It includes a link. It is a scam. Do not open the e-mail and do not open the link.
The IRS does not send out e-mails like this. The IRS has posted information about the scam on its site.
Unleashing a trojan or revealing vital information through such a scam could cause a serious disruption to your business through network downtime or fraud. A network risk policy is one way to protect your business against such scams. I had to tie this post into insurance somehow!
IRS E-Mail Scam originally appeared on About.com Business Insurance on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 11:08:48.