From: "Internal Revenue Service U.S.A"<refund@usa.gov>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:38:56 -0800
A Scam Email with the Subject
"Important Message From IRS"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:38:56 -0800 and has been classified as a
Employment/Job Scam.
The sender was
"Internal Revenue Service U.S.A"<refund@usa.gov>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
activityrecordsserviceaccessprocessfundonline
NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.
return-path:
<refund@usa.gov>
envelope-to:
submitted@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:38:56 -0800
reply-to:
<no_reply@usa.gov>
from:
"Internal Revenue Service U.S.A"<refund@usa.gov>
subject:
Important Message From IRS
date:
Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13.38.10 +0100
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
message-id:
<OH00A19PrWjAKYVpMmO000018d8@mail.agrolab.de>
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
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After the last
annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $93.60.
Please
submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to
process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example
submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
To access your tax refund online,
please click here
