Beware of fake sites for hometown tax donations!

About Fake Sites for Furusato Tax Donation Impersonating Local Governments

Recently, malicious fake websites pretending to be local governments and masquerading as accepting donations through the hometown tax system have been found across the country.
There have already been cases of victims who transferred cash and did not receive their rewards.
If you are considering making a donation on a hometown tax site that you have never used before or if you feel suspicious, please check before applying, and be very cautious of malicious scams.
If you happen to discover a fake site of our city, please contact the General Affairs and Contracts Division.
Note: Our city does not accept applications for "hometown tax" donations via the internet except for the portal site listed in the following link.

• Application for Ai Town Inagi Support Donation (Furusato Tax Payment)

Characteristics of Fake Websites

• Promoting special prices, such as displaying significant discounts from the regular price
• There is no information such as the municipality's address, contact details, or email address.
• Images of thank-you gifts used on the hometown tax donation site are being reproduced to impersonate the real site.
• If the payment method is bank transfer, the account holder's name is either an individual's name or a company name.

The above is just one example.
There may also be cases where they disguise themselves as legitimate sites using clever methods, so please be very careful when entering personal information or making credit card payments.