Businesses beware! Online criminals have ramped up their attempts to steal W-2 information from the finance and human resources departments of organisations, according to a warning issued by the FBI.
In an alert
issued last week, the FBI warned that it had observed a significant increase in reports from companies who had received emails requesting valuable W-2 information from either spoofed or compromised email addresses.
Typically an attacker might pose as a member of the targeted company’s senior management, tricking an unwitting member of staff to send them workers’ IRS W-2 tax form data.
In some cases the initial communication may be a friendly, “Hi, are you working today?” that then leads to a fraudster requesting copies of all employees’ W-2 forms to be sent to them.
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