The scam refers to an alleged tax refund and impersonates the Tax Agency.

The Tax Agency has detected a sending of communications by email in which, impersonating your identity and image, it is stated that: “Following our past annual calculations of your tax activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of EUR 223.56.”

Subsequently, the taxpayer is asked to provide data that is supposedly not available by accessing a link that has an address in which the identity and image of the Tax Agency is once again impersonated so that the taxpayer's credit card numbers are left in the email.

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 measures have already been taken to pursue this attempted fraud and prevent the servers linked to the fraud from receiving taxpayer data.

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.