I got an email from some “IRS.gov” and it said I was entitled to a refund or $889.00 for COVID. This would be fine and all but I am from Canada, and do not deal with the IRS, just the CRA. I checked who sent the email and it lead me to a website with the same email. I was not sure if it was legitimate website or a scam. It has a login portal, pretty poor design but has people with affiliations to facebook, linkedin. Stuff like that to make it seem legit. Would I be correct in giving the website, and a pic of my email received, or would I be doxing a actual website and business. I am new to understanding these complex scams, I only know the basic phishing and “weird number” ones.
the domain “irs.gov” is real, however, in emails, scammers can spoof that address to make it look like their sender address is [email protected] but in reality that’s not their real sender address. This is to fool people into believing the real IRS has sent something.
What’s the website URL with the fake login portal? I suppose that one is not irs.gov? Feel free to post the info you have here, that’s not considered doxxing.
Sounds 100% like a scam / phishing page. Do not enter any real details! ![]()
The URL: gbsco.ie
The sender email: [email protected]
If anything else is needed I can post here or make another with everything on the scam forum.
Welcome!
Scam. 100%
Email addresses can be spoofed, just like phone numbers can. If you can take a screenshot of the email or post all it said would be best in determining who the scammers are. Just be sure to blank out any of your personal information.
These type emails generally give you instructions on contacting them, so that detail is the most important lead.
It looks like a typical Grant scam and those numbers are to the actual SBA Disaster Assistance Customer Service center.
By Phone:
- SBA Answer Desk: 800-827-5722
- You can reach the ASL Consumer Support Line’s Contact Representative via videophone at: 855-440-4960.
- Disaster Loans: 800-659-2955 (TTY: 1-800-877-8339)
https://proxy.www.sba.gov/about-sba/what-we-do/contact-sba
Did you get the URL to where that “submit Information” button goes to? That would be to the scammers and all the ‘official’ information is designed to fool people into believing it is a real message.
Here is a fraud warning about these types of ScamTexts:
https://dcsbdc.org/2265-2/
Welcome to the community @OrbitalmOuse1
Note the grammatical error in the title, the real IRS would not ever do anything like that. also, the words “covid 19 virus disaster” makes no sense, a first language english speaker would know that the word pandemic exists, and I assume the IRS would too ![]()
No, I didn’t click anything in the email, there was a pdf as well (second photo) but I’m wary to click anything that I don’t immediately know. I got the website by googling the email sender.
I was just wondering if you were able to hover over it and see if it showed the URL or if you were able to copy it. The URL from the “sender address” is most likely just a spoof. Are you able to open the PDF using an online pdf reader, as it might have a URL or a phone number they give to contact them.
Here is one you can use:
https://www.docfly.com/pdf-viewer





