Income Tax Department has issued warning against this SMS

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NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department has warned citizens to stay alert of phishing attacks through fake Income Tax returns messages.. People took to Twitter to share text messages that they have received which appears to be from the Income Tax Department. What’s surprising about the message is that it is addressed to the right person whose phone number is linked to the Income Tax e-filing account. As the phone number and the name of the person is accurate, people might tend to believe that the message is originally from the Income Tax Department.The message reads — “Dear Pradeep K (the name linked with phone number on e-filing website), IncomeTax requires you to click the link below to submit a formal request for the remittance of your unclaimed overdue tax-refund on Rs 29,754.” At the end of the message there is Bitly link to a fake SBI online banking website.This is a classic phishing attempt in which the miscreants want to steal your SBI internet banking login details. Note that the Income Tax Department never ask citizens to provide any banking login details to get access to a service. Apart from phishing attempt another most popular scam right now in India is SIM card Swap. SIM Swap or simply SIM card exchange is basically registering a new SIM card with your phone number. Once it is done, your SIM card will become invalid and your phone will stop receiving signal. Now, once the miscreants have your phone number, they will get OTPs on their SIM card. With this they can initiate bank transfer and even opt to shop online after getting Recently, a resident from Noida lost Rs 6.8 lakh from his State Bank of bank account via UPI banking with SIM Swap. Interestingly, the victim in his complaint to the police has claimed that he doesn’t even own a . The total of Rs 6.8 was transferred from his SBI savings account through UPI app by hackers in the past two months. It was only when he recently visited an ATM to withdraw money that he uncovered the fraud.