Do Not Furnish Personal Details Over E-mail, Phone: I-T Department
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.
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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.
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The Income Tax department does not seek such information through email or any other mode of communication from the taxpayers.
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