Notice Of Underreported Income Email – Beware of a fake email from the IRS giving notice of unreported/underreported income because its a phishing scam.
The fake email notice from the IRS about underreported income pretends to be a legitimate IRS Notice called a CP2000, which would give you a legitimate contact at the IRS.
However, this one says its from no-reply@irs.gov, but that’s just a fake address used by the phishing scammers who want you to click the link in the email so they can steal your financial information.
The fake IRS Notice of Unreported/Underreported income looks like this:
Taxpayer ID: gortidd-00000174073547US
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)Please review your tax statement on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website (click on the link below):
review tax statement for taxpayer id: gortidd-00000174073547US
Internal Revenue Service
Ignore the notice and DO NOT click the link as its actually just a spam email sent out to millions of people.
And that’s the latest news on the fake IRS notice of underreported income email.
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September 17th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
What happens if i did click on the link, but didn’t open the software.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
You could have what’s called a “drive-by download” of a trojan, one that’s done in the background with no prompts.
I’d download this free software and run it:
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes%27_Anti-Malware
September 17th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
what if you click on the link on your blackberry??
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Hi, I can barely use my PC afetr falling for this scam. What should I do?
September 24th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
ohh noooo!!!
September 25th, 2009 at 9:21 am
amazing stuff thanx
Keep it rolling ..
September 25th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
thanks !! very helpful post!
September 25th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Come on dude, where are the facts* and proof*. You need to add more justification for what you are saying lol
October 1st, 2009 at 7:49 am
Thanks for the info. The email sure looks real.
… of course, I’m getting about 4 of these irs phishing emails per day, so THAT sure came across wrong.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:09 pm
You guys, who opened this email, must be complete boobs. What planet are you from not to know that IRS won’t be bothering to send you emails if you didn’t pay your taxes in full? Jeez….
If anyone of you opened this email (just the email and not the attachment) then you ARE SAFE! The attachment normally comes in a form of a zipped file. So even if you clicked on the attachment and opened a zipped file, you’re still OK. But… those of you who opened the file inside the attached zip file, are MOST CERTAINLY infected! I’m not sure what this malware actually does. I know that one low-brained individual did open one of those attachments at the office here and they had me fix it for her. What I observed is a bunch of attempts of this malware to try to connect to some web server, which were luckily blocked by Norton. (Those of you who fully rely on Norton, by the way, need to know that it is completely useless in eliminating this threat and it sat quietly when all this infection was happening.)
So if you suspect that you did open the file inside the zipped attachment, you need to get rid of this infection ASAP. Again, I don’t know what it does exactly, but it may be logging your passwords, or anything else off your system in attempt to send it to hackers over the Internet.
Fortunately, it’s very easy to fix. Google for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (or download it from http://www.malwarebytes.org/), then install it. Now, VERY IMPORTANT step — before doing anything, update it! Another important step — when updating is done, reboot in the safe mode. Again Google if you don’t know how – here’s one link for you: http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.shtml Then, in the safe mode, run the full scan. If it finds something, let it remove it for you. When done without any warnings, reboot as you would normally and vualla… you got your computer back…. and next time, please don’t be such a dope opening emails like that….