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Taxes 2023: "DGFIP alert", beware of this tax data theft campaign that is rampant by SMS

2023-05-22T15:39:38.443Z

Highlights: Cybercriminals try to recover tax numbers and passwords through a fake site to hijack government accounts. This is the final stretch for income tax returns and hackers would also like to take some figures from you. After the Crit'Air sticker or the false delivery of parcels, a tax data scam campaign has been gaining momentum for a week. Long confined to emails, phishing has also mutated into "smishing", SMS to lure the victim to a fraudulent site in order to extort him.


Cybercriminals try to recover tax numbers and passwords through a fake site to hijack government accounts


This is the final stretch for income tax returns and hackers would also like to take some figures from you. After the Crit'Air sticker or the false delivery of parcels, a tax data scam campaign has been gaining momentum for a week as the campaign to send declarations in paper format ends on Monday.

Sent from a number in 06, the SMS tries to impersonate the Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) and includes a link to a malicious site insisting on the urgency: "DGFIP alert: For security reasons, please confirm your mobile phone number before 27/05/23. Go directly to "Taxes-2023". com".

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This platform follows the contours of the official Impots.gouv.fr website and first asks you to enter your 13-digit tax number before requiring your password. After sucking up this tax data, the scammers are greedy and ask to enter the missing information: the phone number and more surprisingly, a two-digit area code. Once the "verification confirmed", the page redirects to the real tax site where, ironically, a message alerts against attempts to scam fake refunds that have become a classic of "phishing" first by e-mail and more recently by SMS.

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"The usual catchphrases of scams are often based on this false promise and circulate rather at the end of the summer," says Jean-Jacques Latour, head of expertise at cybermalveillance.gouv.fr. "They are currently acting in small successive bursts of SMS because it is the time of year in the middle of the declaration campaign where we exchange the most with the tax administration," points out the expert. Its victim support platform has recorded an increase in recent days in the consultation of articles dedicated to phishing related to taxes. A good way to remove a first doubt by identifying the techniques of cybercriminals.

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But the malandrins have innovated on this wave and are not limited to collecting data. "This is the first time that we see a laconic message that aims rather to take control of the account for embezzlement," says Jean-Jacques Latour. With profitable scenarios in mind such as changing bank details, falsifying a return and obtaining tax credits in refunds or selling their loot to other criminals with an ever-rich imagination. Long confined to emails, phishing has also mutated into "smishing", SMS to lure the victim to a fraudulent site in order to extort him.

Source: leparis

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