• The deception refers to a supposed refund of a tax and impersonates the image of the Tax Agency

September 26, 2013.- The Tax Agency has detected a sending of communications by email in which, impersonating your identity and image, it is indicated that: “After the last calculation on tax activities we have decided that a tax refund in the amount of 384.56 euros is due. To receive said refund, complete and send the tax form to be returned.”

Subsequently, access is requested to a link that leads to an address in which the identity and image of the Tax Agency is impersonated again and the sending of the DNI, NIF or passport number, and the date of birth is requested. On the next screen, credit card numbers and passwords are requested.

The sending of these fraudulent emails, known as 'phishing', was detected early this morning thanks to the collaboration of Internet users, who contacted the information services of the Tax Agency. The necessary measures have already been taken to prosecute this attempted fraud, blocking the pages that try to impersonate the Agency's image and preventing the servers linked to the fraud from receiving taxpayer data.

The Tax Agency remembers that it never requests confidential, economic or personal information, nor account numbers, nor taxpayer card numbers by email.

The first measure to combat 'phishing' is to prevent users from receiving suspicious communications that include requests for bank details. It is very convenient that the citizen who is aware of a case of 'phishing' received by email sends the original email to the Tax Agency so that the analysis of the corresponding web address is possible. The Tax Agency appreciates citizen collaboration in reporting this type of fraud.