Phishing net

The FBR has warned taxpayers to remain cautious about fake emails. Recently, many taxpayers received fake e-mails that would ask them to clink on a link to contact the commissioner in land revenue. The FBR has declared that these emails are fake, and are being sent through fake e-mail accounts. These messages must be discarded and ignored. Only e-mails sent through official domain must be responded.

Such e-mails are famous for transmitting viruses to disable the computers and incur the loss of the data. Often these emails are sent to steal the sensitive information of a person. Taxpayers should remain vigilant so that they may not fall in the trap of this fraud. This is an extremely dangerous trend which must be dealt with by the authorities.

Javaid Bashir (Lahore)