The SRS calls on citizens to beware of fraudsters on the Internet /

2024-07-10 12:41:24

The SRS reminds that all information sent by the SRS can be viewed in the Electronic Declaration System (EDS). SRS never sends text messages to residents. On the other hand, in the e-mail, residents only receive notifications about information available in the EDS, and this notification contains a link to the EDS “eds.vid.gov.lv”.

Recently, a number of residents who have received e-mails or text messages from fraudsters have contacted the SRS. Fraudsters impersonate the SRS and call for certain actions related to tax refunds. The goal of fraudsters is most likely to obtain people’s bank account access data, so the SRS calls on citizens to be especially careful.

Representatives of the SRS explain that if a text message is received allegedly from the SRS, then it is fraudulent. SRS never sends text messages to residents.

If you receive a text message from your bank or any other bank about a tax refund, it is fraudulent, SRS representatives emphasize. The SRS pays taxes to the account indicated in the EDS of the citizens, banks do not have to be involved in this process and citizens do not have to perform any additional actions after submitting the annual income declaration.

Likewise, if an e-mail is received inviting you to take any actions to receive a tax refund, or if the links in this e-mail do not lead to the address “eds.vid.gov.lv” or “eds.vid.gov.lv/login/ “, it is fraudulent. In order to receive a tax refund, citizens must submit an annual income declaration to the EDS and further tax refunds will be made automatically. On the other hand, if the SRS asks, for example, to clarify the declaration, then this should be done only by the EDS. The EDS address is “eds.vid.gov.lv”. On the other hand, the e-mail notification sent from EDS comes from the following addressee “SRS Electronic Declaration System”[email protected]”.

If you are not sure whether the received message is real, the SRS invites you to contact and ask again by calling the SRS advisory phone number 67 120 000.

If a person has entered his bank details on a fraudster’s website, the SRS indicates that he should contact his bank as soon as possible in order to block the fraudsters’ access to the money and recover the lost money. The speed of action after an incident is critical to recovering what has been lost.

The application should also be addressed to the State Police. If payment card data (instead of “Smart-ID” codes) are requested and entered on the website of fraudsters, the card itself can also be promptly blocked by the user in his Internet bank.

Upon receiving fraudulent messages, it is preferable to send them to the Latvian information technology security incident prevention institution “Cert.lv” to the e-mail “[email protected]”, in order to protect other citizens from such news.

2024-07-10 12:41:24