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Phishing: कर अनुपालन की कमी और दंड सूचना / Tax Compliance Deficiency and Penalty Notice | Fake CPC Bengaluru 143(1) Intimation With a ZIP

· 22 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Intimation under Section 143(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, cross-verified with AIS, TIS, and SFT, with a total corporate demand of ₹ 2,73,250 payable in fifteen days. The penalty-notice template's third draft — sharing its reply-to with the 7 September version — now dressed as a CPC Bengaluru intimation, with a fabricated DIN, a demand table that cites a Section 234F fee at a ceiling that was cut in half four years ago, and a ZIP to download.

Phishing: कर वसूली एवं दंड सूचना | Fake Income Tax Department Tax Recovery and Penalty Notice With a ZIP Attachment

· 22 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Review of your return found under-reported income and undisclosed foreign assets. Refer to the attachment for full details. A bilingual Income Tax Department notice that says nothing about the tax, the amount, or the taxpayer, and defers to a ZIP file in every other sentence — sent from a domain registered seventeen days earlier, through a real-looking government address pasted into the wrong half of the sender.

Phishing: Notice from Tax Departmen | Fake Court Notice, a Disk Image, and a Side-Loaded WeChat Binary

· 27 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

COURT NOTICE. Case Number: [ITD/2026/ND/458721]. Investigating Authority: Income Tax Department, Government of India. Hearing Date: 30 September 2026. The court-notice template's fourth draft, back in English and back on a free Outlook mailbox. This time we followed the link to the end: a disk image carrying a signed Tencent WeChat executable and the malicious DLL it loads.

Phishing: Re: Payment Confirmation & Records | Fake SWIFT Advice PDF Attachment

· 19 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Your payment has been successfully processed. Please find the attached SWIFT advice and supporting documentation for your records. Four lines of flawless business English, a Re: subject line for a conversation that never happened, and a 140 KB PDF that is the entire attack.

Phishing: Audit Notification | Fake Income Tax Department Penalty Notice

· 17 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

The tax inspection of your company has revealed irregularities under Section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. A forged Government of India memorandum sent from a free Outlook mailbox, demanding documents within 72 hours via a Chinese gaming domain.