A top antivirus software purveyor issued a warning about a scam targeting taxpayers with false Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms that lure people into downloading malware.
MalwareBytes, in a release, said it “found an email being sent out with the title of ‘IRS Tax Forms W-9’ which appears to have been sent from ‘IRS Online Center,’” But the email, which contains an attachment and very little text, has a “very suspicious” file.
If the user downloads the file, it will bring up a Word document that asks the user: “This document is protected Previewing is not available for protected documents. You have to press ‘enable editing’ and ‘enable content’ buttons to preview this document.” The form could be be sent as ZIP file containing a Word document, it said….