New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The Income Tax Department has warned taxpayers about a rising wave of phishing scams amid an increase in ITR filings by citizens.

Scammers are trying to impersonate the I-T Department and promising fake refunds, it warned.

The Income Tax Department issued a public alert on X to warn taxpayers about the ongoing income tax scam.

It warned that emails from sender donotreply@incometaxindiafilling.gov.in are fake and asked taxpayers to not open any links sent from this fake ID to avoid getting scammed.

In the income tax phishing scam, fraudsters with the email ID donotreply@incometaxindiafilling.gov.in are sending emails to taxpayers who have filed their ITRs saying that there has been an error in calculating their tax...