In the case of emails, the AT warns that the targeted taxpayers are ‘notified’ about ‘irregularities’ and are told to open the link provided to ‘access’ the supposed ‘dispute resolution guide’, with the fraudulent email being signed by the ‘Regional Director’ of the AT.

“A phishing campaign is also underway using fraudulent text messages (SMS)”, in which “the recipients of these SMS are maliciously induced to make a payment to allegedly regularise their tax situation”, states the AT in the information published on the Finance Portal.

For both situations, the AT's advice is that the taxpayer should ignore and delete these messages, which are “false” and whose sole purpose is to “convince the recipient to access malicious pages by clicking on the suggested links or to make undue payments”, which should never be done