Scotty’s Holdings Seized with Phishing Scam

The tax forms of 4,000 LLC employees of Scotty's Holdings were seized via a phishing scam soon as January was ending. With nineteen restaurants in all and Scotty's Holdings running its Dawghouse restaurant under Butler, Scotty's businesses are spread across 4 states.

The phishing scam distributed a fraudulent e-mail masquerading as Scotty's Holdings' proprietor and founder, Scotty Wise that asked the employees to provide their W-2 forms which usually contained various kinds of information. The sender's account in the phishing e-mail somewhat resembled Wise's e-mail account.

Speaking to WTHR Channel 13, Wise stated that although all employees were affected, information of every customer remained safe. The information in W-2 forms consists of names and addresses of employees together with their wages and SSNs (social security numbers). The Butler Collegian posted this, February 8, 2017.

Wise, through one electronic mail to his employees, expressed his apologies from the side of his whole business for the unfortunate phishing attack.

Wise continued that he was disturbed with the aftermath of the phishing assault because it impacted everyone in the company. He then assured the problem would be resolved and everybody's information would be as secure as before. While applauding the staff members' efforts towards the company, he promised to make the company's deliveries and outcome better in a much more successful and strong manner, anticipating his employees' joint contribution.

Meanwhile, Scotty has offered a year's credit monitoring free-of-cost to his employees because of the attempted hack. The company further advised that the employees request their payment card firms to issue one fraud alert alternatively, get a freeze as a security reason.

The country has been facing scams of the sort all over. The tax-collecting wing of the U.S. government IRS (Internal Revenue Service) lately issued an alert to businesses for being vigilant of people pretending to be the proprietors while directing to provide personal information.

Hitherto, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), IRS along with state and area cops have all joined to solve the case even as Wise is seeking FTC's (Federal Trade Commission) help. Nothing is sure about how much successful it has been in tracing the perpetrators.

» SPAMfighter News - 2/13/2017