Fraudulent emails should be deleted, AT says
Taxpayers who are receiving emails from a sender identifying themselves as ‘autoridade.tributaria’ (Portugal’s tax authority, AT) about a supposed tax refund should delete them as they are fraudulent messages, the AT warned on Wednesday.
“The Tax and Customs Authority (AT) is aware that some taxpayers are receiving emails supposedly from the AT, referring to a possible refund, in which they are asked to click on a link,” says a statement published today on AT portal.
As usual in these situations, the AT warns that these messages are “false” and should be ignored since their sole purpose is to convince recipients to access malicious pages by clicking on the suggested links, which should never be done.
The AT has shared the content of one of these fake emails in which the “taxpayer” is informed that “they are entitled to a tax refund”.
“To facilitate the refund process, we invite you to follow this link that will take you to the refund web form,” the fake message says – with the link referring to a “refund form”.
This fraudulent e-mail comes at a time when the IRS refunds are being processed for many taxpayers.
