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Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-01-17): A viral message claims that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of ₹ 15,490. [...] The Income Tax Department has shared cautionary advice for taxpayers regarding the latest scam around income tax refunds. Several users have received phishing messages impersonating the Income Tax Department and promising income tax refunds. [...] As per PIB Fact Check the message reads, "You have been approved a tax refund of Rs 15,490/- the amount will be credited to your account number 5xxxxx6755. If this is not correct please update your bank account information by visiting the link below."
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-17): Cyber thugs have resorted to income tax refunds as a means to steal money from people’s bank accounts. These criminals have been sending fake messages "Your refund has been approved". After this, many such cases have come to light from across the country. Now, the Income Tax Department has issued an advisory. If you have filed an ITR and are waiting for your refund, then you need to be very careful. The fake messages that are sent out as a part of the scam read, "Income tax refund of Rs 15,490 has been approved in your name. The amount will be credited to your account soon. Please verify your account number 5XXXXXXX6755, if it is not correct then go to the link given below and update your bank account details." [...] Income Tax Department does not send any SMS or email containing a link to the taxpayer. After processing the ITR, the Income Tax Department directly refunds the money in the same bank account of the taxpayer which was provided while filing the ITR. If the department needs any information related to the bank account, then it sends a message to the registered email of the taxpayer.
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2023-08-05): Recently, a viral message surfaced claiming that a recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of ₹ 15,490. This message is FAKE. The Income Tax Department will never send you a message asking you to verify your bank account details or click on a link to update your information. If you receive a message like this, do not click on any links or provide any personal information. [...] If you receive a message like this, do not click on any links or provide any personal information. Instead, you can check the status of your income tax refund on the official website of the Income Tax Department or the NSDL website. You can also check your refund status by calling the Income Tax helpline number.
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A message claiming that recipients have been approved for an income tax refund of Rs 15,490 is going viral on social media and WhatsApp in Sri Lanka. This message is causing confusion among taxpayers who recently filed their Income Tax Returns (ITR). Let’s investigate the accuracy of this viral message […] [...] A message claiming that recipients have been approved for an income tax refund of Rs 15,490 is going viral on social media and WhatsApp in Sri Lanka. This message is causing confusion among taxpayers who recently filed their Income Tax Returns (ITR). Let’s investigate the accuracy of this viral message and understand the truth behind it. [...] In conclusion, the viral message claiming an income tax refund of Rs 15,490 is a scam. Taxpayers in Sri Lanka and India should remain cautious and ensure they verify any such claims through official channels before sharing any personal information.
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2023-08-04): A viral message claims that that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of Rs 15,490. [...] PIB Fact Check, the fact-checking unit of the Press Information Bureau, has alerted people against fake messages regarding income tax return (ITR) refund. A viral message claims that that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of Rs 15,490. According to the fact check tweet, the message reads, " You have been approved an tax refund of Rs 15, 490/- the amount will be credited to your account number 5xxxxx6755. If this is not correct please update your bank account information by visiting the link below."
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2023-08-03): According to the PIB Fact check official tweet, "A viral message claims that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of Rs 15,490." According to the tweet, the message reads, " You have been approved an tax refund of Rs 15, 490/- the amount will be credited to your account number 5xxxxx6755. If this is not correct please update your bank account information by visiting the link below." [...] The income tax refund status can be tracked on the government's new income tax portal by following the steps below: 1. Visit www.incometax.gov.in and log in to your account by entering PAN/Aadhaar number as user ID, and your password.
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2023-08-03): Income Tax Refund Ay 2023-24 News: If you have received a message claiming an income tax refund of Rs 15,490 or any other amount has been approved and you need to verify or update your bank account to get it, consider it fake and do not respond. [...] One such spam message that has gone viral was shared by Government’s official fact-checker, PIB FactCheck. The message reads: "Dear Sir, You have been approved an income tax refund of Rs 15,490/-, the amount will be credited to your account shortly. Please verify your account number 5XXXXX6755. If this is not correct, please update your bank account information by visiting the link below. https://bit.ly/20wpYK6". The message was also retweeted by the Income Tax Department. [...] Taxpayers should note that the Income Tax Department will never ask you to provide bank account details or update or verify them through messages. The Income Tax Refunds are sent directly to the pre-validated bank accounts provided by taxpayers at the time of filing returns. An intimation for the refund is also sent to taxpayers by the Income Tax Department through registered email IDs and mobile numbers.
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2023-08-04): The Press Information Bureau's fact-checking unit, PIB Fact Check, has raised an alarm about a new phishing scam relating to Income Tax Return (ITR) filing and refunds. A deceptive message has been circulating, claiming that the recipient is entitled to an income tax refund of Rs 15,490. The PIB Fact Check has unambiguously stated that this claim is false and has not been issued by the Income Tax Department of India, urging taxpayers to exercise caution and not disclose personal information based on such messages. A viral message claims that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of _ 15,490.#PIBFactCheck __ This claim is ____. [...] The 'income tax refund' message is a well-orchestrated phishing scam that has gained traction and is now viral. This has prompted PIB Fact Check to warn people against cybercrime as scammers are persuading taxpayers to reveal their bank account information via fraudulent links.
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2023-08-03): PIB Fact Check, a fact-checking unit of the Press Information Bureau, has recently alerted people against fake messages regarding income tax return (ITR) refund. A viral message claims that that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of Rs 15,490. According to the tweet, the message reads, " You have been approved a tax refund of Rs 15,490 and the amount will be credited to your account number 5xxxxx6755. If this is not correct please update your bank account information by visiting the link below." [...] Notably, the refund is sent only after the ITR is duly processed by the Income Tax Department. In case the ITR is not processed and the tax department needs additional information, it sends an intimation to the registered email ids of taxpayers.
Claim: Income Tax Refund Of Rs 15,490 Approved For Taxpayers !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2023-08-04): PIB Fact Check in a tweet on August 2 alerted about a viral message claiming that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of Rs 15,490. [...] "You have been approved an tax refund of Rs 15, 490/- the amount will be credited to your account number 5xxxxx6755. If this is not correct please update your bank account information by visiting the link below," the message reads. A viral message claims that the recipient has been approved for an income tax refund of ₹ 15,490.#PIBFactCheck — PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) August 2, 2023 ✔️ This claim is 𝐅𝐚𝐤𝐞.
Claim: NPP Will Produce Sulfuric Acid Using Sea Water At Paranthan - AKD (Social Media Users, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-18): The claim that sulfuric acid would be produced using sea water at the Paranthan Chemical Factory, as stated by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, is false. Dissanayake did not make any such statement. The misinformation appears to have been derived from a misinterpretation or deliberate distortion of his speech.
Claim: NPP Will Produce Sulfuric Acid Using Sea Water At Paranthan - AKD (Social Media Users, 2024-07-18)
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Claim: NPP Will Produce Sulfuric Acid Using Sea Water At Paranthan - AKD (Social Media Users, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2020-03-30): In this circumstance, the sulfuric acid production is an exothermic process (Aroussy et al. 2016a), in which the heat is recovered from absorption process of sulfuric acid by heat recovery system (HRS), with negligible temperature losses and minimum space requirements. The heat recovered is used for district heating of cities, boiler feed water preheating or as heating media in connected processes or adjacent plants. Indeed, it provides the entire need for sulfuric acid and steam for the production of phosphoric acid, fertilizer and the electrical energy required to power the plant. In this work, the sulfuric acid is used to recover heat energy in power plant which is used in a hybrid system of RO–MED in order to desalinate the seawater. A thermodynamic steady-state study of this system is investigated to select the optimum cogeneration system.
Claim: NPP Will Produce Sulfuric Acid Using Sea Water At Paranthan - AKD (Social Media Users, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-23): AKD did NOT say that NPP would produce sulfuric acid using seawater at Paranthan Factory! [...] Social media posts circulate a claim based on a speech by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People's Power (NPP), stating that in a future NPP government, sulfuric acid will be produced using seawater at the Paranthan Chemical Factory. [...] Title:AKD Didn’t Say NPP will Produce Sulfuric Acid Using Sea Water at Paranthan
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-16): The photo of Marco Violi has been misused to spread false information regarding the shooter at Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The actual shooter, who was shot dead moments after the assignation attempt, was identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks. Violi was in Italy at the time of the incident and has publicly denied any involvement in the attack on former US President Donald Trump.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-15): Posts being shared on social media have misidentified an Italian sports journalist as the shooter responsible for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. [...] Some users online have wrongly named the attacker as ‘Mark Violets’. Posts featuring an image of a man in sunglasses on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, say: "BREAKING: Butler Police Department confirms the arrest of the #Trump shooter identified as Mark Violets, a known antifa extremist. He uploaded a video on YouTube before the attack, claiming ‘justice was coming.’" [...] However, the man pictured is not who is claimed, and he has no involvement in the attack on the former president. He is actually an Italian sports journalist called Marco Violi.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-14): In the moments following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, various false reports about the identity of the shooter spread across social media. One message that spread quickly, especially on X (formerly Twitter) read: "Per the Butler Police Department the Trump shooter has been arrested at the scene and has been identified as Mark Violets, an Antifa member." [...] "The #Trump shooter, Mark Violets, has been killed. He uploaded a video on YouTube before the attack, claiming ‘justice was coming.’ Well justice came for nobody but himself," read another Facebook post. [...] The Facebook posts were flagged as "false information" and can no longer be seen. Posts about "Mark Violets" are still all over X, though many of them now include reader-submitted context confirming he is not an actual suspect.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-16): Within hours of the shooting, an image surfaced online of a man dressed in a black sweatshirt, hat and black sunglasses. Social media posts said the man was "Antifa extremist" Mark Violets and that he was named by local police as the suspect in the assassination attempt. However, the man in the photograph is Marco Violi, who had nothing to do with the shooting. Violi is an Italian sports writer who shares content on the Italian soccer team AS Roma. [...] Viral posts also misidentified another man, Maxwell Yearick, as the shooter. In 2016, various media outlets reported that Yearick, who does not resemble Crooks, was arrested outside a Pittsburgh Trump rally after an altercation with police.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-15): BOOM found that the man in the photograph is Marco Violi, a football commentator. Violi also took to his official Instagram profile to clarify that he is not the shooter wrongly identified as one Mark Violets. [...] Several verified X handles posted the image and wrote, "Reports the Trump shooter identified as Mark Violets, a well known antifa extremist. He reportedly uploaded a video on YouTube before the attack titled "justice was coming." He was killed by shortly after shooting at Trump. At least 2 dead." (sic.) [...] We then ran a keyword search related to Marco Violi and came across Violi's official Instagram profile where he issued a clarification about the claims misidentifying him as the gunman.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-15): Screenshots have surfaced on social media that incorrectly state that police have arrested an individual known as "Mark Violets" for the attack on Donald Trump, which injured the presidential hopeful's right ear and killed a spectator. The image features a photo of a man wearing a black hat and glasses, as well as a caption that states: "Butler Police Department confirms the arrest of Mark Violets, identified as the Trump shooter and a known antifa extremist." [...] The FBI has already formally identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the man it believes shot Trump.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-16): Trump shooting conspiracy theories flourish on X, researchers say [...] The social media site, formerly named Twitter, was flooded with unsubstantiated claims soon after the shooting Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which left one spectator dead and a bloodied Trump injured in the ear. [...] Internet hoaxers also falsely identified several people as the shooter -- including Italian sports journalist Marco Violi, anti-Trump protester Maxwell Yearick and comedian Sam Hyde, AFP's fact-checkers reported.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-13): Eyewitnesses who spoke to CNN on Saturday described an awful scene following a shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which one person was killed and two others injured in what’s being investigated as a possible assassination attempt. [...] A law enforcement source and a police officer at the scene told CNN the shooter was positioned on a building rooftop just outside the rally venue. The source said the building was the same one where CNN had seen a heavy police presence following the shooting. The building would have been to Trump’s right as he spoke. [...] "I was at the far right of the podium, where the people sit in the front. I was filming him (Trump) speaking on my phone. Just as I was panning back, I heard seven gunshots in rapid successions, in under two or three seconds," Meyn said.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-14): - US. Who was Thomas Crooks, the shooter who shot Donald Trump and was a registered Republican? [...] In the photograph the alleged perpetrator of the attack could be seen a man of white complexion, thick build, with a beard, wearing dark glasses and a black cap who answered to the name of Marco Violi. A possible perpetrator who was soon dismissed as his alibi was infallible: it was not him. [...] "I woke up in the middle of the night (2 am Italian time to be precise) because of the numerous notifications I received on Instagram and X". A beginning of the story that suddenly was to take a script twist that would completely rule him out as the author of the shooting of Donald Trump: "I'm in Italy, I'm in Rome and I had no idea what happened except to watch Sky TG 24 in Italy that I still follow," he says.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-14): An Italian sports journalist said on Sunday he would take legal action after being falsely identified on social media as the suspected shooter in an assassination attempt against U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. A message shared widely on the X platform reads: "Per the Butler Police Department the Trump shooter has been arrested at the scene and has been identified as Mark Violets, an Antifa member." [...] "I categorically deny that I am involved in this situation," Rome-based Violi wrote in an Instagram story, saying he had been woken up in the middle of the night by Instagram and X notifications related to the post.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-14): Italian journalist Marco Violi spoke out late Saturday night after being wrongly identified as the shooter in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, telling people on social media to, "leave me alone." [...] One post on X, formerly Twitter, from Wall Street Silver, a right-wing social media account run by Ivan Bayoukhi, said, "Per the Butler Police Department the Trump shooter has been arrested at the scene and has been identified as Mark Violets, an Antifa member. Prior to the sh00ting Mark Violets uploaded a video on YouTube claiming 'Justice is coming'." Wall Street Silver's post was debunked by BBC News journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh, who wrote on X on Saturday night: "Major blue-tick accounts are falsely claiming that 'Antifa extremist Mark Violet'" was the shooter at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania today, who earlier revealed his plan in a YouTube video. The video shows Italian football fan Marco Violi, who has nothing to do with the shooting."
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-14): The posts blamed a "prominent Antifa activist," Mark Violets. Law enforcement had not publicly identified the shooter or released any information about his background as of Saturday evening. [...] The person in the posts is, in fact, Marco Violi, an Italian YouTuber who vlogs about soccer. The lie seemingly began with a joke, first posted on X from the account @Moussolinho, which wrongly pointed to Violi as the shooter. His post included a photo of Violi taken from the account of another user, who often posted videos of Violi. That user, because his page was filled with videos of Violi, led people to swarm his account with accusations that he had tried to assassinate Trump. That user made his account private after people began publicly calling him the shooter. "This is absurd," the user said over DM, declining to give his real name. "I had a photo of Marco and some video on my account, so people started thinking that I was this Mark Violets. But it was all fake news."
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-14): An Italian sports journalist said on Sunday he would take legal action after being falsely identified on social media as the suspected shooter in an assassination attempt against US presidential candidate Donald Trump. A message shared widely on the X platform reads: "Per the Butler Police Department the Trump shooter has been arrested at the scene and has been identified as Mark Violets, an Antifa member." [...] "I categorically deny that I am involved in this situation," Rome-based Violi wrote in an Instagram story, saying he had been woken up in the middle of the night by Instagram and X notifications related to the post.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-15): Roger Stone, the longtime Trump confidant, falsely accused a man who was not Crooks of being the shooter, citing unnamed "sources," in an X post Sunday. That man, whom The Washington Post is not naming, was an anti-Trump protester who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a scuffle with police in 2016. By the time Stone’s X post was removed Sunday morning, it had gained more than 1.6 million views and 10,000 likes. A separate man described as an "Antifa extremist" was also falsely named as the shooter in posts that received millions of views. His name, Mark Violets, was briefly one of the top "trending topics" on X in the shooting’s aftermath. Some of the posts with that false name included a photo of Marco Violi, an Italian soccer journalist. In an Instagram post, Violi said he was awoken in the middle of the night to numerous notifications about the allegations and that he intended to file a complaint about the accounts on X.
Claim: Marco Violi - The person who shot Trumph !! (Social Media Users, 2024-07-16)
Evidence (2024-07-14): The world was shocked on Saturday, June 13 when the Republican nominee for the 2024 United States Presidential Election, Donald Trump, was injured in a gun shooting whilst stood on stage as he rallied to his Make America Great Again crowd, but who was his shooter? What do we know? Named as Thomas Matthew Crooks, he fired multiple times at the 78-year-old Trump, who held the Oval Office from 2016-2020, in a town called Butler just outside of Pittsburgh, PA but could not land a fatal shot. He was thought to have been 130 yards away from Trump's podium at the outside rally on the top of a manufacturing plant in a shooting eerily similar to the one that famously killed JFK back in 1963.