Lisbon, April 17, 2025 (Lusa) - Portugal's Tax and Customs Authority (AT) warned on Thursday of new fraudulent emails and SMS being sent to taxpayers asking them to access malicious links. In the case of the emails, the AT warned that the targeted taxpayers are "notified" of "irregularities" and told to open the link provided to "access" the supposed "divergence resolution guide", with the fraudulent email being signed by the AT's "Regional Director". "There is also an ongoing "phishing" campaign using fraudulent text messages (SMS)", in which “the recipients of these SMS are maliciously induced to make a payment to allegedly regularise their tax situation”, says the AT in the information published on the Finance Portal, For both situations, the AT's advice is that taxpayers should ignore and delete these messages, which are "false" and whose sole purpose is "to convince the recipient to access malicious pages by clicking on the suggested links or to make undue payments", which should never be done. LT/ADB // ADB. Lusa