General Department of Taxation warns of 5 fraud tricks

Currently is the peak tax settlement season. The deadline for personal income tax settlement for organizations and individuals paying income is April 1. For individuals directly settling personal income tax, the latest deadline is May 2.

Recently, the tax industry has continuously issued warnings about the situation of impersonating tax officials and tax agencies to commit fraud against taxpayers, but people still fall into the trap of these subjects, especially during the peak month of tax settlement.

According to the General Department of Taxation, the main method of these subjects is to impersonate tax officers to make phone calls, send messages, add friends on Zalo, provide links and guide taxpayers to pay taxes, and guide them to install software that impersonates tax authority applications, in order to steal personal information and bank account information for the purpose of appropriating assets.

Some subjects even impersonate authorities and send fake VNeID public service links for people to access, integrating with advertisements that say "integrating citizen identification and tax codes"; or instructing how to adjust information on the VNeID application, then send fake VNeID correction public service links, thereby taking control of the phone and taking all the money in the bank account.

In the face of the above situation, the General Department of Taxation reaffirms that it does not authorize any organization or individual outside the tax sector to collect taxes on its behalf. At the same time, it warns taxpayers that when receiving such calls, they should contact the tax authority directly through official channels for support to avoid being taken advantage of by scammers.

The General Department of Taxation recommends that when taxpayers receive messages, they should carefully check the content, not rush to reply or follow the instructions in the message.

The tax sector has been actively coordinating with the authorities to resolutely fight, detect and handle criminals. However, the most important thing is that each citizen needs to raise their vigilance and be cautious in all situations.

When receiving phone calls suspected to be fake, people need to stay calm in the face of information, even information that is threatening and pressuring.

Taxpayers should not rush to provide personal information via phone or email, not follow instructions to install fake applications and links, and should immediately notify local police for support and advice.

The General Department of Taxation also recommends that in cases of receiving messages, calls on social networking platforms and calls with signs of fraud, taxpayers need to save evidence such as messages or call recordings, and report to the telecommunications enterprise managing the subscriber to request handling.

Provide available evidence to the competent authorities of the Ministry of Public Security and the nearest tax authority to request handling of the violations of the subjects according to the provisions of law.

5 tricks that scammers often use

1. The subjects used phone numbers and claimed to be officers of the tax department or tax branch to request information and send citizen identification images to receive support and instructions on tax reduction, tax refund, tax settlement procedures and to serve inspection work as well as calls to instruct on installing applications (apps) to receive information from tax authorities.

2. Fraudsters create fake websites with interfaces similar to those of agencies and businesses, from images to content, to make users mistakenly believe that it is the website of the provider.

3. Tricks to fake SMS messages with the brand name of the General Department of Taxation to spread fake messages.

4. Impersonating tax authorities to make threatening phone calls and using fraudulent tricks to appropriate taxpayers' assets.

5. Impersonating a competent authority to support public services and requesting information and sending citizen identification photos. Then, the subject sends fake links and instructions to take control of the phone and take all the money in the bank account.

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