The FBI has joined the IRS in warning that W2 tax form phishing is on the rise.
The US tax filing deadline is now less than a month-and-a-half away, and tax-themed phishing is trending up. Compromised or spoofed emails purporting to be from a company executive are received by the human resources department. Those emails request W2 information.
That’s simply the lead-in to the scam’s ultimate goals, which are usually one of the following: either collection of personal information on employees, fraudulent wire transfers of company funds, or both! The emails asking for W2 information often contain the wire transfer request.
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