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This is a security and fraud alert to my readers. This mail is affecting many people in India. If you see something like this click spam and delete. Do not click the link provided or submit any information they might ask. Just hit delete.

Dear Valued Taxpayer,

We regret to inform you that your tax refund request was NOT processed successfully. This is beleived to have been caused by the submittion of incorrect/inacurate account information.

However, after the last account audition, the total refund payable to you is now 42,320.00 INR. Please follow the link below to re-submit a refund request and this time, endeavor to fill in your Information accurately to avoid further delay in the remittance of your tax refunds into your account

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A REFUND REQUEST (malicious link removed)

Note: Your request will be processed within a period of ten (10) working days

We appreciate taking the time to learn about our tax refund. It’s one more way Income tax department can make your tax payment experience better.

Tax Refund Department
Department 0f revenue,
Ministry 0f finance,
lndia

Here is the header of the mail. Pay close attention how they try to mimic a government site with a .gov.in extension. Also note that it actually originates from a different domain than what they specify.

Header of the Fake mail from income tax department regarding tax refund.

I urge you to share this post to help not some tech savvy friends of ours from falling into fraud traps like this one.

Thanks for reading.
Raj

A mail lands in my mailbox claiming “Get Fake Experience Certificate from Genuene Company”. Do mark the “Genuene”. So if you plan to sue them they can say safely that we did not say genuine we said “Genuene”.

The mail had a link and just two lines. I decided to dig a bit and see what is the scam about. Once you arrive on the page the first half page is packed with Google ads. How interesting!

What they are selling?

Fake Experience Certificate, Fake Offer Letters, Appointment Letter, Salary Slips, Corporate Email Id, Experience Letter, Relieving Letter, Letter of Recommendation, Corporate ID / Access Card, Bank Statement, Increment Letter

My first reaction was – “bloody hell”. How can a company sell this openly? They have packages ranging from INR 10,000 to INR 30,000 for a combination or all of the above fraud documents. This company also claims to be registered and having a successful track record of 8-10 years. ( they are not sure, then how can you be ). You can also use these fraud papers to blackmail your current employer to claim higher salaries, so the company claims.

I received the mail form raj@placemententerprise.com and this is their website that the sick company imagines to be “excellent’. The website seems to be covering a whole range of crapy services. They need to design their own website first before claiming to design ours. They have posted their descriptive ads on various forums like NaukriSalah

I feel sad that in our country such businesses and people can thrive. Not just thrive but offer services openly. Of course this has to be reported. Instead of displaying their creativity in something constructive and entrepreneurial young people prefer to take the short cut to financial gains. I wonder if they ever realize it is a criminal action to forge documents even for job applications or claiming pay hikes. Not just that they are incriminating innocent job seekers they are exploiting their limitations.

If you can see a little ahead of your present, then do understand that even though you might be able to land a job or etch out a salary hike based on these false achievements you are putting your future at stake. You will remain in constant fear all throughout your career. Imagine four years from now and you are in a respectable position when your fraud is discovered. You will loose more than your job. You loose your self respect and reputation in industry. I don’t know how you will take it then, if it was me then……

here is the mail