Recently, impersonation of tax officials and other authorities to defraud and misappropriate assets during the peak tax settlement month has caused confusion among people.
Faced with this situation, at the Ministry of Finance's first quarter 2024 press conference, Mr. Mai Son - Deputy Director of the General Department of Taxation said that the agency has researched the tricks used by fraudsters and make recommendations to taxpayers.
First, the Tax Authority affirmed that it "does not authorize any individuals outside the Tax industry to collect taxes on their behalf". At the same time, warn taxpayers when receiving calls to contact tax authorities directly through official channels for assistance to avoid being taken advantage of by fraudsters.
"The General Department of Taxation will strictly handle cases of revealing, leaking, and selling data in accordance with the law," Mr. Mai Son emphasized.
In order to help taxpayers avoid online fraud, especially during the current tax settlement period, the General Department of Taxation recommends that people never provide personal information or bank account information. goods to anyone via phone or social networks.
At the same time, carefully check contact information, especially requests to transfer money or provide information over the phone. Do not allow any individual to directly access your computer/phone to Support installation and use of tax agency software
In particular, absolutely do not click on links attached to phone messages, zalo... claiming to be tax agencies or representatives providing guidance on tax procedures.
Deputy Director General of the General Department of Taxation Mai Son spoke at the press conference (Photo: Thuy Duong)
Taxpayers should contact the tax authorities directly through official channels if they receive any suspicious requests. Save evidence such as text messages or call recordings and report to the authorities if fraud is detected.
At the same time, proactively install the eTaxmobile application on Apple store or Google Play to look up your tax information yourself, such as tax amount payable, tax amount paid, overpaid tax amount, fines, and penalties. tax debt processing... and look up tax refund notices, progress, and processing status of tax documents that people have sent to tax authorities, avoiding being taken advantage of by fraudsters.
To help taxpayers avoid the risk of fraud, the Tax agency has coordinated with functional forces such as the Police and the Ministry of Information and Communications to fight and strictly handle violators.
Accordingly, the functional forces have been fiercely fighting, detecting and handling these criminals. However, the most important thing is that each person needs to increase their sense of vigilance and caution in situations.
The General Department of Taxation recommends that taxpayers, when receiving phone calls pretending to be tax officials, need to stay calm in the face of threatening pressure, should not rush to provide personal information via phone or email, and should not follow through. Instructions for installing fake applications and links; Immediately notify the local police agency for assistance and advice.
Common tricks are: Impersonating tax officials: Claiming to be an official of the tax department, the tax department calls to request information, send pictures of licenses and citizen identification cards to receive instructions on procedures for tax reduction, tax refund, and to serve inspection work. such as calls to install the application to receive information from tax authorities.
Monday, impersonating tax authorities to make threatening calls, notify of violations of tax laws to threaten, entice and use fraudulent tricks to appropriate taxpayers' assets.
Fake messages and emails from the General Department of Taxation: send messages or emails containing file links containing malicious code or requests to install software or update personal information or bank account information.
Fake tax authority website to commit fraud through authorizing tax payments or buying and selling illegal invoices.
Impersonating authorities, Send fake VNeID repair public service link for people to access, with ads that integrate citizen identification and tax codes or advertise a scheme to use personal identification codes as tax codes, then take control of the phone and take all the money in it. Bank account.
