The General Tax Directorate (DGI), communicated an alert about emails sent in your name and that are intended to cheat to the taxpayers through suspicious links.
“We have received information about emails sent on behalf of the DGI, which aim to cheat and cheat to taxpayers”, specifies the DGI statement, which establishes that the email is sent on behalf of “María López”, a supposed specialist in Fiscal Affairs of the Financial Department of the DGI.
In the email, they specify that the taxpayer could have a tax default, so they invite him to enter misleading links.
Faced with this, from the DGI They recommended “checking for warning signs of misleading messages, checking the sender’s address, and avoiding selecting links and providing personal or confidential information, among other preventive measures that can be taken.”
The DGI recommendations
This type of scam is called phishing, which, according to the definitions of the Agency for Electronic Government and Information and Knowledge Society (Agesic)corresponds to “any message you receive by email, WhatsApp, SMS or others, which attempts to deceive you by imitating the identity of a third party (bank, social network, friends, etc.).
This has the objective of “manipulate you and that you toast information” such as passwords, bank accounts or credit cards. To avoid this, specifically in companies, the agency recommends:
- Review the setting of the accounts.
- Raise awareness staff.
- Review the warning signs.
- Check what information There is available online about the company.
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The BROU received 40% fewer complaints about fraud and scams in 2023
He Republic Bank (BROU) reported that the complaints frauds and scams with credit and debit cards during 2023 were 40% less than the previous year since during 2022 a peak in complaints was obtained, reaching a total of 1,400.
According to the banking entity, the remaining 60% were attempts at frauds and scams that could not be realized thanks to the actions of the bank, as well as the Police. For its part, the 40% that did manage to materialize correspond to the late detection of maneuvers by the bank or the police or also due to the rapid action of criminals.
The manager of BROU, Mariela Espinoclarified that the total corresponds to the number of complaints, which does not mean that all of them are scams either frauds that have been finalized. For her part, the leader explained that these crimes occur due to failures or carelessness of clients and not due to vulnerabilities that the banking system has.
Source: Ambito
