The Australian Tax Office provides a list of current scams for stealing financial and personal identity information. The modus operandi (MO) described by the ATO are useful to identify scams in other jurisdictions.
The attacks are esseniailly 'man in the middle' attacks by which individuals are fraudulently directed to the scammer's website and then passed onto the real tax office website. The individual's personal and financial information is skimmed in passing.
Examples of the scams are described a:
