By Chrysostomos Tsoufis

In the anabumbula the wolf rejoices. Now much more taxpayer-friendly and at the same time accessible, AADE sends a barrage of e-mails to inform about the appearance of overdue debts, missed deadlines, set-off of debts. At the same time, the astute are also sending messages to unsuspecting taxpayers trying to deceive them.

Such a “wolf” wearing her “sheep”. AADE attempted to deceive the signatory as well. By email he informed me that:

mygovgr.

To: You

I am one of the lucky ones because I have not submitted my tax return yet. However, 2.8 million taxpayers have submitted and either out of ignorance or curiosity or because they need this money, some may click on the link, especially when they see gov.gr on the sender, which refers to the Greek State. Of course, looking carefully at the entire address of the sender, it is clear that it does not come from AADE. I think it is clear that hardly any employee of the Authority would be called Garcia. In addition to the electronic messages of AADE and its services in general Greek State there is the no-reply indicator, i.e. non-response. And of course they don’t ask you to click anywhere or give any sensitive personal information. The same applies to banks.

Those who unfortunately fall into the trap and press the click sometimes this means that a “malicious” software is “planted” on the device which will then proceed to intercept the data. The “luckiest” ones will be asked for bank account codes so they will have one last chance to “save” the situation.

Of course it is phishing – as this type of attempted fraud is called – is not unheard of, but it is on the rise. In December, AADE sent thousands of warning e-mails to taxpayers and is giving the same advice now:

-Do not open any attachments in the message
-Do not select any suggested link
-Delete the message immediately, as it is fake and contains malicious content