Beware of false emails from the Revenue Agency!
False emails are arriving from the Revenue Agency. But the Revenue Agency and the other state bodies do not write to the tax payer or citizen via normal e-mail, but use the so-called Pec . The deepening of Umberto Rapetto
The messages that are pouring into the e-mail boxes of Italians are fake, but that doesn't mean they can't cause headaches in those who receive them.
To allow you to breathe a sigh of relief, the recipient must not "obey" the indications contained in the communication and take advantage of this circumstance to learn a few small tricks to avoid falling into future traps.
The e-mail of these days has an austere appearance and has as its subject the bureaucratic title "Communication Protocol n.AR591362283", where that "AR" could evoke the acknowledgment of receipt of traditional registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt.
First observation. The Revenue Agency and other State bodies do not write to the tax payer or citizen via normal e-mail, but use the so-called PEC or the "certified" solution which guarantees the formal tracking of the address and which ensures that the content reaches intact from the sender to the recipient of the message.
The second clue comes from the sender's label which often appears simply with the formal indication of the public office and therefore ready to mislead even the most attentive. There are various systems to recognize what is behind that name. Often it is enough to superimpose the arrow of the mouse pointer on the identification of the sender to bring up the real address which never corresponds to that of the entity fraudulently impersonated by the criminal on duty.
In other cases it is sufficient to simulate the reply to the message just received: what is about to be sent shows that we are writing to someone whose mailbox does not end in “@agenziaentrate.gov.it” or with another identifier that really belongs to the financial administration. In this case it can be ascertained that our interlocutor has an email address no less than based in India.
The digital missive contains apparently official references and scares that "Subject: Administrative Notification". Someone would be ready to fall into the temptation to listen to the invitation "You can access the notification in your private area" which is clearly followed by an outwardly truthful web address.
Once again it is good to superimpose the mouse arrow on the link "agenziaentrate.gov.it/AR916590102" to discover that a possible click would lead to Brazil to "worldbusinesstechnology.com.br/moluccellalaevis" where a set of poisonous instructions is ready which for prudence it is better to remain unknown. A virus or ransomware could be unleashed, one of our electronic archives damaged or a flood of document and image files disappear…
I didn't want to go deeper than necessary either because I didn't want to experience the thrill that Enzo Jannacci repeated in his "I'm coming too". It is preferable not to “discover secretly the effect it has…”.
Even if the Agenzia delle Entrate does not bother to alert the vast number of taxpayers – constantly the target of such fraudulent actions – it is worth keeping an eye out.
Probably those who sit behind the wheel of the taxman will say that they have already informed the public. Unfortunately, generic warnings are useless because normal people forget the recommendations received after a short time: this time the question is "fresh from the day" and the chatter just made can prevent the occurrence of some scam.
Article published on giano.news
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/fate-attenzione-alle-false-mail-dallagenzia-delle-entrate/ on Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:12:21 +0000.