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July 14, 2012

Phishing Spam: Canada Revenue Agency

Screen Shot 2012-07-14 at 7.15.02 AM.pngWe are starting to see instances of an interesting new phishing message coming to some @math.mcmaster.ca addresses.

This one purports to be from the Canada Revenue Agency and comes complete with letterhead and some pretty-much solecism-free text.  But the give-away is request to open the attached file, which is a web form which asks for your credit-card information.

Simply delete the message or file it under rhpcs-mail-cleaner/spam-missed.

The text of the message follows.
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Canada Revenue Agency

www.cra.gc.ca                       FILE REF NO. 3467754


Date: July 12, 2012

Subject: TAX RETURN FOR YEAR 2011


Dear Taxpayer,


I am sending this email to announce: After the last annual calculation

of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to

receive a tax return of:

202.02 CAD

To receive your return, please complete and submit the Tax Return Form

attached to this email and allow us 3-5 business days in order to

process it.

 

Yours sincerely

EMILY C. TAYLOR

Canada Revenue Agency

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