The tax department said on Thursday that anyone who receives an SMS text message purportedly from Taxisnet, to ignore it.

It said that messages with sender ‘TAXISnet’ with the words: “You have received a refund of XXX euros” which urge recipients to enter a page with the address “https: /t.ly/CYA9”, are not official correspondence of the tax department.

“Those who have received such messages should ignore them,” the department said.

The department officially communicates only through emails that end in @ tax.mof.gov.cy.