If you are an employee at ESU, you may have received an email from our Payroll department this week warning you of a new IRS email scam.
The IRS released a statement on November 19 warning the public of fraudulent emails impersonating the IRS. While similar scams have been used in the past to impersonate banks and other financial institutions, this particular email pretends to come from "IRS Online" and includes a malicious attachment called "Tax Account Transcript." The attachment carries a well-known malware and has a great potential to infect your computer.
It is extremely important that you do not open this email or its attachment. The IRS (or any other legitimate institution) will never send unsolicited emails to the public containing sensitive information, such as tax transcript. If you receive an email like that in one of your personal email accounts, you can delete or forward the scam to phishing@irs.gov.
If you receive this scam to your ESU email, please contact the IT Help Desk immediately at ext. 5555.
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