{"id":68962,"date":"2020-05-05T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-05T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:59:00","slug":"gstn-alert-to-taxpayers-on-fake-messages-on-gst-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=68962","title":{"rendered":"GSTN Alert to Taxpayers on fake messages on GST Refund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GSTN Alert to Taxpayers on fake messages on GST Refund <br \/>GST<br \/>Dated:- 5-5-2020<br \/><BR>Attention Taxpayers!<br \/>\nSafeguard yourself from fake messages on GST Refunds<br \/>\nIt has been observed that some fraudulent messages are being circulated on WhatsApp, Email and SMS, claiming to process GST refund. It clearly shows that some miscreants have started to take undue advantage of Covid-19 crisis, by sending out fake messages with phishing links. One such link takes to a portal claimed to have been developed by GSTN. The same is fake and Government has notified only www.gst.gov.in as the common portal, under the GST Laws.<br \/>\nThrough such links, the taxpayers are asked to fill important information such as- Personal details, Address, Refund Details an<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=22799\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>on&#39;ts<br \/>\nUse only GST portal www.gst.gov.in for claiming refunds<br \/>\nDo not reply to any message claiming to process GST refunds<br \/>\nFor any information on claiming GST refund, checking status of the refund application read<br \/>\n\thttps:\/\/www.gst.gov.in\/help\/refund<br \/>\nDo not open any link or attachment in the message<br \/>\nRemember that GST Network never call detailed personal information and refund details on email, WhatsApp or SMS<br \/>\nNever fill any personal detail and other information on any platform other than GST portal for claiming refunds<br \/>\nStay updated with News &#038; Update section of www.gst.gov.in for any official and authorized information<br \/>\nDo not call at the number mentioned in the message<br \/>\nIn case of any query of confusion, please call GST helpdesk 1800<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=22799\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSTN Alert to Taxpayers on fake messages on GST Refund GSTDated:- 5-5-2020Attention Taxpayers! Safeguard yourself from fake messages on GST Refunds It has been observed that some fraudulent messages are being circulated on WhatsApp, Email and SMS, claiming to process GST refund. It clearly shows that some miscreants have started to take undue advantage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=68962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GSTN Alert to Taxpayers on fake messages on GST Refund&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}