Tax refund scam Canada

Question

Got official looking email from Gov of Canada irs saying I have refund of 300$ coming.

Asked me to fill out aplication stating my name adress etc

Red flag right there

1 Canada Gov knows my name and adress.
2 I get refund the same day I do my taxes at H&R block.
3 irs never send emails,they use paper mail for all corespondence.
4 all refunds hst tax and carbon credits get deposited electronicaly to my bank acount.

Hope this help someone to avoid geting riped off.

I also log off turn off wifi my comp when not using it.

fizz · Answer

I can vouch for the Paper Mail part.Last spring Wife got a letter saying she owed an extra $800. Ha Ha she thinks, it's a scam. She dug up the proper phone number and called. Ouch, not a scam.

bb_tx · Answer

Any time I get any email from someone not in my contact list I open the email and click on the the sender’s name or address in the from block. That opens the properties for the sender info and likely as not the “official looking” address is actually something crazy like dvgyhgcfgh;567,;7@$/;,?! .com. I click on Block this contact. And then move it to junk or spam.

pianotuna · Answer

Thanks for the heads up free radical

bob_nestor · Answer

BB_TX wrote:Any time I get any email from someone not in my contact list I open the email and click on the the sender’s name or address in the from block. That opens the properties for the sender info and likely as not the “official looking” address is actually something crazy like dvgyhgcfgh;567,;7@$/;,?! .com. I click on Block this contact. And then move it to junk or spam.Actually it's not difficult to fake the sending address in an e-mail.  You need to look a bit deeper into the headers which aren't normally displayed to determine how real the e-mail is.  Had a co-worker years ago who maintained the company e-mail system demonstrate that by faking up a message which appeared to come from the President of the US.

bb_tx · Answer

bob_nestor wrote:BB_TX wrote:Any time I get any email from someone not in my contact list I open the email and click on the the sender’s name or address in the from block. That opens the properties for the sender info and likely as not the “official looking” address is actually something crazy like dvgyhgcfgh;567,;7@$/;,?! .com. I click on Block this contact. And then move it to junk or spam.Actually it's not difficult to fake the sending address in an e-mail.  You need to look a bit deeper into the headers which aren't normally displayed to determine how real the e-mail is.  Had a co-worker years ago who maintained the company e-mail system demonstrate that by faking up a message which appeared to come from the President of the US.Yes, I sometimes get emails with the sender name of someone in my contact list. But the content of those emails typically contain content that is not consistent with what I expect, such as asking me to click on a link to see some odd subject. Clicking on the sender name and checking the properties shows the actual sender email address is far from the person who supposedly sent it. Actually I never click on any link without checking the sender properties first.

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