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SINGAPORE \u2013 Received an e-mail from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) saying that your tax refund has been processed?<\/p>\n
Do not click on any links in the e-mail as it could be a scam, the authority warned in a Facebook post on Nov 10.<\/p>\n
IRAS said that it has received reports of such scam e-mails bearing its logo, with text such as \u201cImportant Notification\u201d and \u201cRefund Notice\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a screenshot of one of the e-mails posted by IRAS, recipients were told that their refund of $1,248 had been processed. They were then asked to click on a link to receive the funds in their account.<\/p>\n
IRAS warned people not to click on these suspicious links as they may lead to phishing websites.<\/p>\n
Victims may also be tricked into downloading malware on their devices.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember, IRAS does not send e-mails on your tax refund amount,\u201d it said, adding that any refunds will be credited directly into taxpayers\u2019 registered bank or PayNow accounts.<\/p>\n
The authority also urged the public to hover over links to check the real website addresses.<\/p>\n
Other telltale signs of a scam include spoofed e-mail addresses or a distorted IRAS logo, it said.<\/p>\n
People can stay safe by not downloading any attachments or programs from such e-mails. They should also not disclose personal information, internet banking details or one-time passwords, said IRAS.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers can file their income tax from March 1 to April 18 every year<\/span><\/a> and check for updates on any refund on IRAS\u2019 myTax Portal<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier in January, ahead of the annual tax season, the police had advised the public to be cautious about unsolicited e-mails from scammers claiming to be from IRAS<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n In the e-mails, victims would be informed that they were eligible for tax refunds, and would be asked to click on a link to process the application.<\/p>\n In its mid-year scam statistics released on Aug 26, the police said that scams remain the dominant crime type in Singapore, with $410.6 million lost to these ruses in the first half of 2026 alone<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Government official impersonation scams recorded the second-highest losses among all scam types, with $90.8 million lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Received an e-mail from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) saying that your tax refund has been processed? Do not click on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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