Mass mailing of phishing emails allegedly on behalf of the State Tax Service is recorded

Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, published 04 November 2026 at 16:54 Chapter: News

Taxpayers receive big number of fake emails purporting to be from the State Tax Service of Ukraine. Subject of such emails is about alleged tax debt accrual.

In fact, these messages have nothing to do with the Tax Service. They are sent from the third-party email addresses and contain links or attachments with malicious software.

Be careful – opening such files can lead to infection of the computer and provide attackers with hidden access to it.

It should be emphasized: all official e-mail addresses of the Service have a domain @tax.gov.ua, and official mail of the State Tax Service is post@tax.gov.ua. If the letter came from another domain – this is a clear sign of forgery.

Characteristic feature of such letters is presence of attached files .pdf, .zip, .rar, as well as files with extension .exe, .scr.

Typically, such attachments contain software to gain remote access to the user’s device.

Taxpayers are urged to follow basic rules of cyber hygiene:

-​ do not open suspicious attachments,

-​ check sender’s address,

- ​do not trust even familiar contacts without additional confirmation.