Cybercriminals are already using extremely cynical methods to rob their victims. Now they impersonate the tax office and send investors e-mails containing a false tax form. This is the prelude to taking over your digital currencies!
As reported by RTL, potential victims of hackers first receive an e-mail with a link to a website containing a form from the German “tax office”, which “looks very realistic”. The website contains the tax office’s logo and a “cryptocurrency tax declaration form”. In the message, criminals ask their victims to disclose in the document the amount of cryptocurrencies they have and where they are stored – whether they are on a cryptocurrency exchange or on an external wallet (e.g. hardware).
The form also contains fields in which you must enter your telephone number and home address.
White hacker Wesley Neelen described the procedure to RTL:
You receive a notification of a new message in your inbox. After clicking on it, you eventually get to this form.
Neelen told the media that the exact purpose of the form remains unclear.
It is possible that criminals will contact you by phone. But they can also come to your door.
Criminals are aware that a website can be blocked quickly and easily, which is why its address is changed almost every day.
Although this scam is addressed to German investors, it cannot be ruled out that its Polish version will appear soon.
Attacks on investors
The information that fraudsters may knock on your door is not factual. This year alone, there have been cryptocurrency-related attacks, including robberies and kidnappings. Police in the Netherlands have already arrested five suspects connected with the kidnapping – they dragged a 24-year-old man into a car and threatened him with a gun, demanding that he transfer his cryptocurrencies to their wallet. In France, there was also an attempt to kidnap the daughter and granddaughter of a famous cryptocurrency businessman.
The history of the market even includes kidnappings that ended with the mutilation of a crypto investor. There was a lot of news about the kidnapping of French multimillionaire David Balland, co-founder of Ledger. The criminals cut off his finger.
