Income Tax Dept Warns: Beware of Fake Emails Asking for Manual Verification
If you receive a phishing email that does not relate to the Income Tax Department but appears to target other personal or financial data, you should still report it by forwarding it directly to incident@cert-in.org.in to help prevent potential cyber frauds.
The Income Tax Department has issued an important advisory to taxpayers, warning them to be on alert for fake emails claiming to be from the Department and requesting manual verification of personal data. According to the PIB Fact Check, any email asking you to click suspicious links or share sensitive details such as passwords, bank account numbers, credit card information, or PINs...
The Income Tax Department has issued an important advisory to taxpayers, warning them to be on alert for fake emails claiming to be from the Department and requesting manual verification of personal data.
According to the PIB Fact Check, any email asking you to click suspicious links or share sensitive details such as passwords, bank account numbers, credit card information, or PINs is entirely fake and must be ignored.
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The Department has clarified that it never seeks detailed personal or financial information through emails, nor does it ever ask taxpayers to disclose confidential credentials such as passwords or access codes.
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The taxpayers receiving such phishing emails should exercise extreme caution: do not reply, do not open any attachments, and avoid clicking on any embedded links, which could redirect unsuspecting users to malicious sites or infect their devices with harmful code.
The department also advised not to cut and paste suspicious links into their browsers either, as cybercriminals can disguise fraudulent sites to look deceptively authentic.
In order to protect their systems from fraudulent invasions and phishing attempts, it has advised taxpayers to improve their digital security by utilizing firewalls, anti-spyware programs, and updated antivirus software.
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How to Report to Income tax Dept
If you receive an email or come across a website that you suspect is fraudulently posing as the official Income Tax Department, you should immediately forward the suspicious email or the website URL to webmanager@incometax.gov.in.
Additionally, a copy should also be sent to incident@cert-in.org.in for further investigation by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).
You may forward the suspicious message exactly as you received it, or include the Internet header of the email, which contains technical details that can help trace the actual sender. Once you have forwarded the email or header details, you are advised to delete the suspicious message from your inbox permanently.
If you receive a phishing email that does not relate to the Income Tax Department but appears to target other personal or financial data, you should still report it by forwarding it directly to incident@cert-in.org.in to help prevent potential cyber frauds.
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