The Income tax department on Tuesday requested taxpayers to not respond to any email or any type of communication sent to them requesting them to furnish their personal particulars.

Personal details such as bank account details, passwords, one-time password etc purported to be from the Income Tax department.

If you have received any such fraud mails, kindly do not respond and register a complaint by forwarding the actual phishing email as per procedure and details given in http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/pages/report-phishing.aspx (the official web-link of the department's complaint box)," it said.

The Income Tax department does not seek such information through email or any other mode of communication from the taxpayers.

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