TAX season doesn’t just bring financial pressure, it also brings a mountain of cybercriminal activity.
Financial software firm Intuit is warning customers of a recent phishing campaign in which scammers impersonated the company and threatened to close user accounts.
Last week, Intuit shared a screenshot from the suspicious email that’s been going around to customers and emphasized that the message was not from them.
“This email did not come from Intuit,” the popular accounting company said.
“The sender is not associated with Intuit, is not an authorized agent of Intuit, nor is their use of Intuit’s brands authorized by Intuit.”
The fake email claims to be from Intuit’s maintenance team, but the email’s recipient is set as “Intuit Accountants.”
The subject line reads “Critical: Action Required (TXP099497).”
The scam tells the email recipient that the maintenance team has “temporarily disabled your account due to inactivity” and that it is “compulsory” to restore access to the account within 24 hours.
In order to “restore the account,” the email directs users to a dangerous link.
Intuit implores users to avoid the link and to just delete the email entirely.
If you’ve already clicked on a link or downloaded something from the email, the software company recommends that you delete the download immediately, scan your…
