i don’t know how can these email got thru my spam blocker, but received two of them in a roll. Basically it says your check $5,xxx was rejected by your bank paying to IRS for 2015 tax due, you should open the attached doc to see further instructions.
It got me going for a while because I don’t remember how much the tax check I wrote. I had to file several tax returns because between my mom’s trust and my company there was a lot going on.
At the end, I think it is a virus. Never open the attachment.
My spam filter, which used to be excellent, is getting less and less effective, with at least 8 or 10 spam emails making their way through every day. I assume the spammers are getting better and better at eluding the filters, and the email providers aren’t keeping up because they don’t have a huge incentive to do so.
Yea, I get random spam emails, all asking me to click a link. Some are purportedly from my email server, airlines, USPS, UPS, and a whole host of different companies who urgently need me to click a particular link to help me. I also get emails purportedly wanting to give me or my charity money. I add them to my spam folder and don’t think too much about them–mosquitos!
You can also view the actual email address (not the link) and you will see it is from an odd account, not realted to the organization in the title. A lot of email systems show the short form title of the sender and you have to click on or hover over to show the real address. As fast as spam filters figure out how to block, they create new algorithms to defeat the filters.
my client got a call from “IRS” saying a fraud case against them. Her attorney husband got upset, called a collegue, who called back to these people. I thought it was a scam. Days later, I got the same call.
When I have made mistakes, IRS always sends a letter.
I think there are many people out there looking for prey.
To view an email without opening it up, right click on the email while it’s still on your list of emails to be opened. At the bottom, it will say “View message source.” Click on that and the message opens up with all its coding and so forth. You can see where it’s from – the real email address, not the one they want you to see – as well as what the message says. But you are protected, because you haven’t actually opened it up.
Someone on CC told me this trick several years ago and it’s been very useful.
Yes, they sent me an email the other day recommending that I change my master password. I changed ALL my passwords. Maybe that was overkill but I’m a little paranoid about this stuff. I’m a retired federal employee so I have THAT to worry about, too. :((
We deleted our entire account as we have found we just do not use it.
I think we are hopelessly old as we still have our handwritten password book. Also, nearly always, you can ask for a new password and it happens fast.
Now H has our investments so fancy that I can barely get the code to register…