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Snapchat among companies duped in tax document phishing scam

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and SARAH SKIDMORE SELL, Associated Press
Published: March 10, 2016, 6:00am
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Snapchat revealed on its corporate blog that its payroll department had been duped by an email impersonating Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel.
Snapchat revealed on its corporate blog that its payroll department had been duped by an email impersonating Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel. Photo Gallery

SAN FRANCISCO — Tax-filing season is turning into a nightmare for thousands of employees whose companies have been duped by email fraudsters. A major phishing scheme has tricked several major companies — among them, the messaging service Snapchat and disk-drive maker Seagate Technology — into relinquishing tax documents that exposed their workers’ incomes, addresses and Social Security numbers.

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