Definitely phishing, you’re not going to get an official notice about unpaid taxes via text message. If you get something in the mail from city hall then yes, most definitely it is real.
Do you fall for the Nigerian scam e-mails as well?
Do a Google search for “未払い税金お支払いのお願い。詳細はこちら” and look at the top 50,000 results.
I doubt they would send an email/sms Unpaid taxes are always sent in an envelope via letter. Never via email and asking you to click on a suspicious link.
As someone who just dealt with tax related stuff (not unpaid taxes but they had a question about my claim cause my taxes are kind of complicated). They will send you a letter, and then they may call you to follow up, but they won’t send you any emails. Ignore it.
One of the things I really enjoy about my life in Japan is that I haven’t yet received even a single unexpected text message that I couldn’t safely ignore.
Absolutely phake. And please stay on top of your taxes. Japanese tax authorities have a lot of power once they start feeling ignored. The TV news last evening showed them searching people’s homes and confiscating cars and other property. Even a foreign exchange student had her new iPhone taken away for ¥200k in jyuminzei she owed. Was interesting, in a schadenfreude type of way.
My favorite scam is the “We have your undelivered package, click the link blah, blah, blah”
Never, not even once have I received a legitimate package delivery related sms. the only sms I ever get are from the phone company, hawking some more shit, again… etc
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Definitely phishing, you’re not going to get an official notice about unpaid taxes via text message. If you get something in the mail from city hall then yes, most definitely it is real.
Do you fall for the Nigerian scam e-mails as well?
Do a Google search for “未払い税金お支払いのお願い。詳細はこちら” and look at the top 50,000 results.
I doubt they would send an email/sms
Unpaid taxes are always sent in an envelope via letter. Never via email and asking you to click on a suspicious link.
As someone who just dealt with tax related stuff (not unpaid taxes but they had a question about my claim cause my taxes are kind of complicated). They will send you a letter, and then they may call you to follow up, but they won’t send you any emails. Ignore it.
One of the things I really enjoy about my life in Japan is that I haven’t yet received even a single unexpected text message that I couldn’t safely ignore.
Absolutely phake. And please stay on top of your taxes. Japanese tax authorities have a lot of power once they start feeling ignored. The TV news last evening showed them searching people’s homes and confiscating cars and other property. Even a foreign exchange student had her new iPhone taken away for ¥200k in jyuminzei she owed. Was interesting, in a schadenfreude type of way.
My favorite scam is the “We have your undelivered package, click the link blah, blah, blah”
Never, not even once have I received a legitimate package delivery related sms. the only sms I ever get are from the phone company, hawking some more shit, again… etc