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Internal Revenue Service Scams

US-CERT is aware of a series of scams circulating that are related to the United States Internal Revenue Service.

The first of these attacks, attempts to convince users to open bogus tax documents that may contain malicious code. Additional attacks attempt to convince users to follow a link in an email message to an unofficial tax website that may contain malicious code or request personal information as part of a phishing scam.

US-CERT encourages users to do the following to help mitigate the risks: