Revenue Agency, new urgent notice due to a wave of online scams through this communication: how it works and recognizing it
The Revenue Agency it is a reality that makes most Italians tremble even just reading that name. Let’s imagine then if communications arrive with this signaturewhether physically as happens when it comes to something concrete, which can however also be a banal communication and not necessarily a bad surprise, or online where, however, you often have to be careful not about the type of notice in question but rather about the fact that pIt could be one of the many scams in the name of the collection agency.
Precisely due to the fact that most citizens turn pale in front of that logo or panic in the case of communications for any fines or measuresmany malicious people use leverage by trying to exploit widespread fear to place a series of ad hoc cyber attacks and aim at the bank accounts of poor unsuspecting victims to empty them. It often happens, in fact, that the Revenue Agency is forced to specify that certain notices apparently in its name do not actually belong to it. And here we go again.
The new scam in the name of the Revenue Agency
This time too, moreover, he had to do so as stated in a warning dated June 19th. As specified through its official website, There is a new wave of false communications which has as its purpose steal the login credentials to access the institutional portal. The email looks like “registered notice” and the text reads: “Dear taxpayer, the Revenue Agency informs you that a new notification is available”. Entering the data a fake module would be downloaded where there would be the presumed explanation.
The tax authority explains how to recognize this and other fraud attempts:
- Sender address foreign to the Revenue Agency
- Subject Notice Registered mail #ARXXXXXXX (the registered letter number varies)
- References in the body of the message to “Revenue Agency – Collection” and “Revenue Agency – territorial office” as the appointed body
- References to an elusive “Deed Code” in the ARXXXXXXX format (the deed number is random)
- Presence of a link to consult the administrative notification, which actually leads to a counterfeit web page with the Revenue Agency logo and a fake login screen, designed to steal victims’ access credentials to the institutional portal.
What does the taxman recommend to avoid them entering your bank account
“We therefore recommend that citizens pay the utmost attention and, if they receive emails similar to the example above, not to click on the links contained therein, not to download, open and fill in any attachmentsnot to provide access credentials, personal data and the bank details for any telephone calls related to this type of phenomenon and to absolutely never contact the sender of any communications”we read in the communication.
Clicking on a trap link effectively becomes fatal: these take you back to a page that can do a lot download viruses to your device which would open the doors to hackers or would be asked, always presenting itself as a credible warning, inserting your bank card by entering number, cvv and expiry. At that point it would already become too late: your life savings, whether few or many, would be wiped out and never recovered.
