{"id":2373,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"myGov-Tax-Refund-Phishing-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"myGov Tax Refund Phishing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to this email, which \u00a0purports to be from Australian government \u00a0services website myGov, you are eligible to receive a tax refund.<\/p>\n<p>The email instructs you to click a button to access a tax refund eForm. It warns that your refund will not be processed if you do not confirm your identity. \u00a0 The email, which has the subject line &#8220;Important information regarding your account&#8221;, includes the myGov logo and claims to be from the myGov \u00a0Team.<\/p>\n<p>However, the email is not from myGov nor does it have any connection to the \u00a0Australian Taxation Office (ATO). And, the claim that you can click the link to get a tax refund is untrue. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the email is a phishing scam designed to steal your personal and financial information. If you click the button in the email, a fake tax refund claim form will open in your browser.<\/p>\n<p>The form asks for your \u00a0name and contact details, your myGov \u00a0password, and your credit card numbers. \u00a0 After you supply this information and click the &#8220;Continue&#8221; button, you will be automatically \u00a0redirected to the genuine myGov \u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the scammers can collect the information you supplied on the bogus form and use it to commit credit card fraud and identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive \u00a0an email like this one, do not click any links or open any attachments that it contains. On its security \u00a0information web page, <a href=\"https:\/\/my.gov.au\/mygov\/content\/html\/security.html\">myGov notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Do not click on links in emails or text messages claiming to be from myGov. myGov will never send you a text, email or attachment with hyperlinks or web addresses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scammers have long used the promise of unexpected tax refunds as a way of tricking people into divulging their personal information or downloading malware. \u00a0 Such scam emails<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/tag\/tax\/\"> target taxpayers in many different nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>An example of the scam email:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20081\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/mygov-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,743\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"phishing-scam-email-260518-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2-300x279.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2.jpg\" alt=\"MyGov Tax Refund Phishing Scam Email\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2-768x713.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2-500x464.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phishing-scam-email-260518-2-585x543.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>A screenshot of the bogus tax refund website form:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/mygov-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,722\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2-300x271.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2.jpg\" alt=\"MyGov Fake Tax Refund Claim Form\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2-768x693.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2-500x451.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mygoc-tax-refund-phishing-260518-2-585x528.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/mygov-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/mygov-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this email, which \u00a0purports to be from Australian government \u00a0services website myGov, you are eligible to receive a tax refund. The email instructs you to click a button to access a tax refund eForm. It warns that your refund will not be processed if you do not confirm your identity. \u00a0 The email, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}