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Phishing awareness

The beginning of tax season is when phishing artists ramp up their angling for your W-2s and other financial information. The number of people affected by increasingly sophisticated phone and email scams and phishing attacks is larger every year.

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IRS Warns of New Email Scam

The IRS sent out a warning 11/20/18 about a new email scam that may contain malicious malware. The fraudulent emails, which appear to be sent from “IRS Online,” contain an attachment labeled “Tax Account Transcript,” or something similar. The IRS, however, does not send unsolicited emails to the public, nor emails containing sensitive information such as that which is included in a tax return. The IRS asks the public not to open the email, and if using a personal computer to delete it or forward it to phishing@irs.gov. If one is using an employer’s computer, the IRS asks that the employee notify his or her company of the email.

If you receive such an email in your Amherst mailbox, please forward it to phishing@amherst.edu.

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Rather than giving hackers access to your email, course websites, and ACDATA information, take five minutes to learn the difference between a legitimate Amherst login page and a phony one.

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