Posted on 
Jul 26, 2006 09:13 am Thanks for the heads up dB,
on the theme of warning people:
Subject: security news
-- IRS Warns Taxpayers of E-Mail Scam Using US Treasury Payment Systems
(24 July 2006)
Fake e-mail messages containing several misspellings and purporting to
be from a fictitious IRS organization are circulating. They claim that
someone has enrolled the recipient's credit card in the US Treasury's
Electronic Federal Tax Payment System and has tried to use the credit
card to pay taxes. The messages instruct recipients to click on a link
to recover the money, but the link takes them to a malicious Web page
that tries to gather sensitive personal information. This scam is one
of more than 100 since last November. in which perpetrators have tried
to impersonate the IRS in attempts to fool victims into divulging
personal and/or financial information or into downloading malicious
code.
www.computerworld.com/act...&articleId= 9001961&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8
[Editor's Note (Tan): Cybercrimimals are starting to time their attacks
to persuade users to fall into their trap. Before April 15, there was a
scam on tax filing. Now we see another one on tax payment.
www.websense.com/security...php?AlertID=436
www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125155,00.asp ]
*Edit* oop, that first link didn't quite go through correctly. Can an admin fix for me? thanks.
