It also drops a file (in this case called FbIpg60.exe) which has another low detection rate of just 2/57. Fake IRS spam is quite common, if you don't deal with the IRS then blocking mail-irs.gov on your email gateway might help.
Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program. CGI is a
It also drops a file (in this case called FbIpg60.exe) which has another low detection rate of just 2/57. Fake IRS spam is quite common, if you don't deal with the IRS then blocking mail-irs.gov on your email gateway might help.
We blocked all of them, even the first one, with our financial phishing filters which detect fake emails from banks, IRS, Paypal, ebay and other organizations that are often the subject of phishing scams. We blocked it based on header info mismatch (sending IP is not IRS) and also added The envelope (or SMTP) sender is not @irs.gov, so you might be seeing a different campaign. Ted Green, our President and co-designer of SpamStopsHere, wanted me to add this
Koskinen strongly encourages taxpayers to visit IRS.gov as a first stop for information ranging from the status of their refunds to tips on resolving tax issues — and to file their taxes electronically. Oh, another negative to that hiring freeze? It