FYi:

From: Australian Taxation Office [mailto:notice@ato.gov.au]
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013 9:35 AM
To: herp@derp.com.au
Subject: Australian Taxation Office - Refund Notification

Australian Taxation Office
10/24/2013

TAX REFUND NOTIFICATION

After the last calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a refund of 9513.95 AUD.

For more details please follow the steps bellow :

- Right-click the link on the attachment name, and select Save Link As, Save Target As or a similar option provided.
- Select the location into which you want to download the file and choose Save.
- Open the file Microsoft Word file to view the details.

Kenton Abernathy,
Tax Refund Department
Australian Taxation Office

There is no such e-mail address notice@ato.gov.au nor would the ATO e-mail you regarding a refund adjustment 'let alone e-mail tax payers at all'.

P.S:

I wish my name was Kenton Abernathy, just sounds so regal.

Let it be noted that there are some cases when the ATO will e-mail you but you will know in advance and it wouldn't be in relation to a matter such as this'.

Also look for tell tail signs such as how the date is formatted.

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Another reason why cesh is best!

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MY09 Evo X - 1.6bar@3500rpm - got lag?
Barbagallo - 56.03 (S); 1:08.09 (L)
Collie - 50.77
Possibly the most under-driven Evo X in the world??

I'm pretty sure ATO only contact you via post or phone from my experiences. Never heard of them emailing.

Good work.

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Bye bye betty blue. Hello F6.

I remember a similar scam a few years ago and trying to convince a customer who was photocopying all of their documents to send off to a "tax official" who was going to send them $10000+. His response when I said it was a scam was to say "whats the worse that can happen?"

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[I]and then we discovered it wasn't the Robot King after all, it was the real one. Fortunately I was able to reattach the head.[/I]

Got the same email a few weeks back, made me laugh.. I'm sure someone will fall for it!

apparently only a handful of virus scanners will pick up this attachment as well unless they've updated their definitions since.

If its the same one that hit excel/pdf docs recently, the only way to fix this was restoring a backup prior to infection.

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An amended notice of assessment will be generated but this will generally relate to adjustments including but not limited to:

- PAYG Withholding discrepancies;
- PAYG Instalment discrepancies;
- TFN Withholding; and
- Primary Production Averaging.

In relation to my point about e-mailing

This is generally due to ATO audits whereby they will forward information to you/you will forward information to them BUT this will be discussed during a phone conversation.

I would strongly suggest that any correspondence be discussed with your registered tax agent.

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I had one of these emails a while ago. Still amazes me how people fall for spam.

I had the same last year, but only refunded $120.45 ppftt.