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South African Revenue Service Issues Fraud Alert,
by Robert Lee, Tax-News.com, London
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has issued an alert to warn the public against a number of scams currently underway which seek to defraud taxpayers of money or to obtain their bank and other personal details.
Two scams have been brought to the attention of SARS in recent days. The first
involves emails being sent to unsuspecting taxpayers informing them that they
are owed an income tax refund and requesting them to complete a refund form
in order to get the fictitious refund. This “refund form,” which
copies the SARS eFiling logo and website style, requires taxpayers to provide
their debit or credit card number and PIN numbers.
The second scam is aimed at VAT vendors and also uses a copied SARS eFiling
letterhead. It requests that VAT vendors make all VAT payments into a fraudulent
bank account.
Both scams have been referred to the South African Police Service and SARS’s
criminal investigation divisions for further investigation.
"SARS would like to remind taxpayers that they should never divulge personal
details and banking details to anyone over the telephone, email, fax or internet
without establishing the true identity of the recipient," SARS warned in
a statement, adding:
"SARS eFilers are only notified via email or SMS that their income tax
assessment has been processed. To access their IT34, the eFiler is required
to log in to their unique profile on eFiling using their username and password.
The IT34 will then reflect whether the taxpayer is due or a refund or additional
tax on assessment."
To prevent fraud, SARS last year did away with issuing of refund cheques and
will only pay refunds into verified bank accounts.
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