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Post Office Tax Rebate
MrsM71
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My business received the following e-mail this morning:
From: support @ postoffice.co.uk
Subject: Post Office Tax Rebate
Date: January, 20, 2013
After the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax rebate of: £ 143.24
Regarding this, please download and fill out the form in order to process your tax rebate.
TAX REBATE NUMBER: UK7022885-POSTOFFICE/2013
Please allow us 3 to 7 days to process your refunds.
Our head office address can be found on our web site at
Thank you,
Post Office Limited
Alice Perkins
Copyright 2013 The Post Office
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A quick search of the internet revealed I am not the only business to have received such a generous offer of exactly the same amount!
I have deleted it & blocked the sender.
From: support @ postoffice.co.uk
Subject: Post Office Tax Rebate
Date: January, 20, 2013
After the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax rebate of: £ 143.24
Regarding this, please download and fill out the form in order to process your tax rebate.
TAX REBATE NUMBER: UK7022885-POSTOFFICE/2013
Please allow us 3 to 7 days to process your refunds.
Our head office address can be found on our web site at
Thank you,
Post Office Limited
Alice Perkins
Copyright 2013 The Post Office
________________________________
A quick search of the internet revealed I am not the only business to have received such a generous offer of exactly the same amount!
I have deleted it & blocked the sender.
You've got to be in it to win it!
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Comments
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Looks like a phishing attack of some kind.
Since when do the Post Office handle tax rebates?There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.0 -
Can the OP please disable the link to the """postoffice""".co etc. they can contain nasties.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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peter_the_piper wrote: »Can the OP please disable the link to the """postoffice""".co etc. they can contain nasties.
It's the Post Office's website address, nothing to worry about:rotfl:0 -
I've deleted the link just in case!You've got to be in it to win it!0
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And the from S-upport@ etc just in case.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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This is clearly a phishing attempt as the form post the information to an escort agency in london - "okescorts". They have very neatly left a trace back to them in the source code of the attachment, ;-)0
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