Recently, we had clients receive emails from what appeared to be employees within their businesses. In these emails, the person made a seemingly legitimate payroll request for employee rosters with social security numbers to be emailed to them. These were fraudulent “spoofed” emails from criminals seeking to obtain confidential data.
Alert: Email Fraud That Targets Businesses is on the Rise
Posted by nhogan on Apr 1, 2016 2:19:45 PM
Topics: Email Scam, Fraud, Personal Data, Uncategorized
Today, it is unfortunately too regularly that we are sharing information about scams with our clients and friends. Usually, these scams are created in an attempt to gather your personal identity and information to then be used in an array of criminal activities from credit card fraud to income tax refund fraud.
Topics: Email Scam, IRS, IRS Scam, Tax, Uncategorized