Our top tips for Scams Awareness Week: ATO

Scams Awareness Week is from 25–29 August 2025. It’s a great reminder to stop and take a sec to check it’s really us contacting you. We know you’re busy, juggling multiple deadlines, but scammers plan on you being distracted.

Do these 3 things to help protect yourself:

1. Don’t be fooled by emails and texts with QR codes or links to an online portal that claim to be about your tax – that’s a scammer trying to steal your personal information.
2. When checking the status of your tax return or using online services, always type the URL into your web browser – don’t click a link in a message.
3. Make sure you protect your TFN, ABN and myID/RAM login details. Never give out your personal information to anyone unless they genuinely need it.

If you think a phone call, SMS, voicemail, email or social media interaction claiming to be from the ATO is not genuine, do not engage with it. You should:

• go to verify or report a scam to see how to spot and report a scam, or
• if you have divulged information or paid a scammer money, phone us immediately on 1800 008 540.

Learn more at ato.gov.au/scamsafe.

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