The scam refers to alleged information that makes it impossible to send the refund for the Income Tax 09 campaign and impersonates the image of the Tax Agency.

 The Tax Agency has detected a sending of communications by email in which, impersonating the tax authority, it is stated that: “Taking into account the information held by the Tax Agency, it has not been possible to return the amount owed to you after reviewing your Income Tax Draft in the current Income Tax 09 campaign.”

Subsequently, the taxpayer is asked to provide data that is supposedly not available by accessing a link that leads to an address in which the identity and image of the Tax Agency is once again impersonated to leave personal economic information of the taxpayer there, such as account numbers or credit cards.

The sending of these fraudulent emails, known as 'phishing', was detected mid-morning today thanks to the collaboration of Internet users who contacted the information services of the Tax Agency. Necessary steps have already been taken to pursue this attempted fraud.

The Tax Agency reminds users that the best way to prevent suspicious communications that include requests for bank details is to prevent them from doing so, and it appreciates their cooperation in reporting this type of fraud.

Finally, the Tax Agency reminds us that it never requests confidential, financial or personal information, account numbers or card numbers from taxpayers by email.