If You Get This SMS On Income Tax Refund, Beware As It's A Scam Affecting Thousands Of Victims

It's easy to get suckered into an online scam, even when you're generally cautious. Phishing mails can be very convincing to the untrained eye. So when we tell you there's a new Income-Tax related scam
doing the rounds here in India, you need to pay attention.

Karthik Srinivasan a freelance communications consultant for digital marketing posted a curious story to Twitter earlier today. He described receiving a text message, supposedly from the Income Tax department, saying he was eligible for a tax rebate.
This is obviously a plausible message, and further inspection of the message doesn't turn up any glaring mistakes, name changes, or sender details that might tip a person off. Luckily though, Srinivasan said he remembered the Bitly URL shortening tool (something he uses often in his line of work) allows you to reverse search a shortened link to see where it's taking you and how many clicks it's received. Upon doing that, Srinivasan found the URL led to a Russian domain (surprise surprise eh?), and the URL had only been created a day before.