On illegal use of US Internal Revenue Service name

The Bank of Russia communicates that the US Internal Revenue Service (hereinafter, the IRS) has revealed facts of illegal use of IRS name for obtaining information on account holders, account data or other confidential information from financial institutions.

As a rule, violators emailed requests on behalf of the IRS to financial institutions registered in compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (hereinafter, FATCA) with the IRS website, where they indicated their Global Intermediary Identification Number (hereinafter, the GIIN) and demanded to immediately communicate confidential information attaching the IRS reporting forms.

In this regard, the IRS published an information notice for international financial institutions warning about the reveled facts of illegal use of its name http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-Financial-Institutions-of-Scams-Designed-to-Steal-FATCA-Related-Account-Data

The notice warns that the IRS does not require financial institutions to provide information on the account holder or account data as well as FATCA Registration Portal passwords via email, fax, SMS or social networks. For the purpose of notification on the revealed facts, the IRS has created a special webpage on the website http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml

In its turn, the Bank of Russia advises Russian financial institutions to take reasonable care when receiving such request.

При использовании материала ссылка на Пресс-службу Банка России обязательна.