Real, “phishing” or virus……

Anyone else get this one??

“Your Tax transaction(ID:************) recently sent from your bank account was returned by the your financial institution.”

There was a 3 line box with the ID # in one, the rejection reason….see detailed report and link to the report.(Microsoft Word Document)

Address below that was

Internal Revenue Service

Metro Plex 1 (2 words)

8401 Corporate Drive

Suite 300

Landover MD 20785

The mailing address for MD is Andover

defiantly is a virus or something
Do not open any attachments. Attachments may contain malicious code that will infect your computer

Also forward it to [email protected]

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Also forward it to [email protected]

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When I try to forward it an error pops up and is unable to forward it. I didn’t open the attachment.

mrwalleye is correct….and the IRS would like to see the email.

I got an automatic response from the IRS

This is an automatic reply from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Online Fraud Detection and Prevention (OFDP) team.
We have received your report of possible phishing or fraud. Although we review and investigate each email we receive,
due to the number of incident complaints, we cannot guarantee a personal response to your message.

Please note that the IRS does not contact individuals by email.
Therefore, if you received an email claiming to be from the IRS it is a phishing attempt and should be reported to us.

Additional information on IRS phishing can be viewed here:
http://www.irs.gov/privacy/article/0,,id=179820,00.html

Additional information on avoiding phishing scams can be viewed here:
http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html

The IRS values your report, and encourages individuals to report future IRS phishing/fraud to [email protected]
so that we can handle these incidents and limit the number of possible victims.
To limit email volume, you will only receive one auto-response per day for any of your submissions.

Thank you for your report.
Regards,

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Online Fraud Detection and Prevention (OFDP)
[email protected]