An
Email with the Subject "IRS: Your Tax Refund Notification!" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:02:07 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as "Internal Revenue" <us.services@online.irs-net.us>.
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[date:] => Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:01:43 +0700
[from:] => "Internal Revenue"
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[subject:] => IRS: Your Tax Refund Notification!
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Internal Revenue Service United States Department of the Treasury
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive 328.45$ tax refund under section 501(c) (20) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please submit the Tax Refund Request Form and allow us 3-9 days to process it.
Yours faithfully,
Sarah Hall Ingram, Commissioner
This notification has been sent by the Internal Revenue Service, a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
Internal Revenue Service
United States Department of the Treasury
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive 328.45$ tax refund under section 501(c) (20) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please submit the Tax Refund Request Form and allow us 3-9 days to process it.
Yours faithfully,
Sarah Hall Ingram, Commissioner
This notification has been sent by the Internal Revenue Service, a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
