{"id":2521,"date":"2010-08-28T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2010-10-01T07:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:51:42","slug":"watch-out-for-ato-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for ATO Scams&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tax Refund Scams<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of refund scam emails currently circulating. These emails claim to come from the ATO and offer a tax refund. They link to a bogus ATO website asking for personal and credit card details. These emails can differ in their appearance and level of sophistication but will generally state that you are eligible for a refund and instruct you to click on a link to submit a form to receive it. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The ATO will never email you asking for personal or credit card details<\/span><\/strong> and you should never provide this information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key indicators of\u00a0the email scam include:<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The email asks you to provide personal details.\u00a0Always be suspicious of this.<\/li>\n<li>It is poorly worded with spelling and grammatical mistakes (though this is not always the case)<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0includes an attachment (form) or link to a webpage to lodge a form.<\/li>\n<li>It asks for credit card and PIN numbers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Unsolicited Phonecall\u00a0Scams<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You receive a call from a person saying that they are from &#8220;The Tax Office&#8217;s Australian Government Grants Department&#8221;. The person asks to clarify your name and address and says you will receive a cheque for $5200, hand delivered the next day. In order to get this cheque, you need to call a phone number back to confirm eligibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key indicators of the phonecall scam\u00a0include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The caller advises that you have an unclaimed refund.<\/li>\n<li>You are asked to pay a sum of money to a third party in order to receive the refund.<\/li>\n<li>The payment must be made through a money transfer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember, no\u00a0official institution will ever contact you directly for your secure information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of tax refund scam emails currently circulating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[342,343,340,341,345,344],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}