ITR Filing: If you have recently received a message claiming income tax refund of Rs 15,490 or any other amount. Also, if you are being asked to verify or update your bank account to get it, ignore it completely.
Income Tax Refund Ay 2023-24 News: If you have done ITR Filing this time and your income tax refund is being made, then this news is useful for you. You need to be careful while filing refund, otherwise one mistake may cost you dearly. Yes, if you have recently received a message claiming income tax refund of Rs 15,490 or any other amount. Also, if you are being asked to verify or update your bank account to get it, ignore it completely.
People are being cheated by greed
The last date for filing Income Tax Return for unaudited cases is over. This time a record 6.77 crore income tax refunds have been filed. Refund is being processed by the department on their returns on these ITRs. Spammers are taking advantage of this opportunity to cheat people by luring them with fake income tax refund messages. One such message is going viral. This message has been shared by PIB Fact Check.
What’s in the message?
It is written in this message ‘Dear Sir, You have been approved Income Tax Refund of Rs.15,490/-, the amount will be deposited in your account soon. Please verify your account number 5XXXX6755. If it is not correct, please update your bank account information by visiting the link below. https://bit.ly/20wpYK6″. This message has also been retweeted by the Income Tax Department.
Taxpayers need to keep in mind that the Income Tax Department will never ask you to give or update bank account information through messages. Income tax refund is sent directly to the bank account given at the time of filing return on behalf of taxpayers. Not only this, refund information is also given to taxpayers by the Income Tax Department through registered email ID and mobile number.
Refunds are sent only after the ITR is duly processed by the Income Tax Department. If the ITR is not processed and the tax department requires more information, it sends a notification to the registered email ID of the taxpayers. In such a situation, you are advised not to click on any link sent through SMS or other messaging apps. Only the message sent by the Income Tax Department should be replied to.
