PhishTank on WashingonPost.com; phishers pretend to be Uncle Sam on tax day
posted by Allison on April 17th, 2007 in PhishTank, Community, PhishTank in the news, Verifying phishes
“Tax time means fraud time,” writes Washington Post security blogger Brian Krebs. I know you agree with Brian because you voted “is a phish” on submission #130719, a phishing site posing as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and offering visitors their tax refund credited to their Visa or Mastercard.
PhishTank caught five IRS phishes this tax season and prevented who knows how many people from readily handing over their personal information.
Now what are you doing reading this blog? Don’t you have taxes to do? 
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Nicole Seefeldt
But, be vary wary these messages just don’t happen during tax time. I normally would be suspect but let down my guard because of an incident with a payroll deduction in which I had to file an amended return. I thought these emails looked very real and they are getting better, they redirect back to the IRS website. I took a bunch of safety precautions but boy do I feel dumb!
Sometimes it just so happens at the time you let down your guard for one second.
— posted by Nicole Seefeldt on September 5th, 2007 at 1:12 am