{"id":1150,"date":"2019-12-30T18:16:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2020-01-14T18:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T10:24:57","slug":"iras-warns-of-scam-message-on-tax-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/2019\/12\/30\/iras-warns-of-scam-message-on-tax-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAS warns Public on Tax Refund Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On or about 30 December 2019, the Inland Revenue Authority of  Singapore (IRAS) has advised taxpayers against a scam that is being circulated on WhatsApp. The message  shows an e-mail titled \u201cInland Revenue Authority of  Singapore-Refund-Online-Confirmation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  e-mail contains the IRAS logo and title, informing victims of a tax  refund of \u201c$236.51\u201d which they can receive. The recipients are instructed to download and fill up a tax refund form by clicking on a link in the e-mail so that they can access their supposed tax refunds.  The scam also indicates that refunds may be delayed for various reasons, including the submission of invalid records or applications made past the deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scam originally circulated in 2018, and the IRAS has warned recipients not to respond or circulate the image of the e-mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: IRAS website, 30 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On or about 30 December 2019, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has advised taxpayers against a scam that is being circulated on WhatsApp. The message shows an e-mail titled \u201cInland Revenue Authority of Singapore-Refund-Online-Confirmation\u201d. The e-mail contains the IRAS logo and title, informing victims of a tax refund of \u201c$236.51\u201d which they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incometax","category-techupdates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}