The Tax Office (La Agencia Tributaria) has detected a fraud on the Internet which promises a tax refund of 384.56 euros.
The email messages use the offficial logo of the agency and require customers to provide personal data, passwords and credit card numbers.
The Tax Office has declared that these emails are fraudulent and were detected first thing today, Thursday, thanks to information from Internet users.
Measures have been taken to block webpages issuing the emails and identify the culprits. However, the Agency reminds Internet users that personal, economic or personal information, current account details or credit card numbers are never required in unsolicited confidential emails by bona fide companies. If customers identify this activity, known as “phishing, ” they should send the emails to the Tax Office.
Nexonr was also subject to a recent attempt at fraud when it was contacted by a person in China regarding the domain and webpage. Allegedly a company in China wanted to use the name “nexonr” and the only way to stop them was to “register” the domain at a cost. As the domain “nexonr” is bought and paid for this was clearly an attempt to extract money under false pretences.. A quick search threw up various warnings about similar fraudulent activities usually through emails from China.
