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- Aug 17, 2014
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The Emotet Trojan is getting ready for the tax season with a fresh spam campaign pretending to be signed W-9 tax forms.
A new campaign discovered by email security company Cofense, where the Emotet operators are sending spam pretending to be a requested signed W-9 tax form.
With 2019 behind us, accounting departments are starting to issue tax forms needed for preparing the 2019 tax returns. As part of this process, companies request a signed W-9 form from their clients, independent contractors, and other people they do business.
With there always being something to do, it is common for a person to sign a W-9 form and quickly shoot it back to the company in a brief email.
This new Emotet spam campaign captures this feeling perfectly by using brief emails with a simple "Please see attached" and a fake W-9.doc attachment.
Spam email pretending to be Signed W-9
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