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GILE MICHEL / SIPA

“You have an outstanding refund on the part of your tax finances.

To accept the fast online payment click on the following link and record the refund information.

For several days now, a fraudulent email with the address impôt.gouv.Fr has fallen into the mailboxes of taxpayers.

This is an attempted bank card fraud that accompanies the promise of a tax refund.

With the subject of “reimbursement of public finances”, this false e-mail which usurps the identity of the Directorate of Public Finances (DGFIP) indicates an attractive amount, often greater than a thousand euros, and offers the recipient access to a reimbursement form and obtain a tax return after filling in your bank card number.

He then promises the taxpayer to receive a “confirmation message by SMS” confirming his “reimbursement”.

A fraudulent site which includes all the codes of the General Directorate of Public Finances.

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This fraudulent email which includes all the codes of the DGFIP is typical of a phishing attempt which “is not new, we assure the Public Finance Directorate.

It reappears regularly and in waves [a first false portal was deactivated in 2019].

We alert quite regularly on our site and our social networks.

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The tax services never "ask for the bank card number"

On the impots.gouv.fr portal, we learn that this new email scam using the DGFiP's email address has made it possible to steal the bank details of taxpayers, particularly targets businesses and has been circulating on the Web for several months already.

The Public Finance Department therefore invites you to be very vigilant as to the content of the emails received by being, in particular, "attentive to all signs and details which may reveal that it is a fraudulent message" (spelling errors or syntax, requests for detailed information about the company or its bank details, etc.).

Update #information Following our complaint, the fraudulent site has been deactivated.

We advise you to remain vigilant.

More info ➡️ https://t.co/JqauFpRdiD https://t.co/74qRlXVlU0

- FinancesPubliquesFr (@dgfip_officiel) October 10, 2019

"In general, users see that it is a fake", continues the DGFIP, which lists on its website all the fraud attempts identified in recent years.

And to remember that the tax services "never ask for the bank card number", that you should never reply to this email, do not click on the link it contains, and "delete it from the email box. ".

Finally, it is possible to report fraudulent content on the internet-signalement.gouv.fr platform hosted by the Ministry of the Interior.

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