Fraudulent HMRC Email

dickydonkin

I have just received the following email and I suspect for some it will be convincing as the message does indeed look authentic - although some grammatical errors give the game away.


Tax Refund Notification

You are Recieving this Notification Because you are Eligible to claim your tax refund which has accrued up to 239.41 GBP,
This is the last and Final notice we will be sending regarding this issue. you are advised to respond
Swiftly to this mail so as to facilitate the process within 72hours of receiving the information Submitted.

On files dated 01/03/2011, The following Banks are processed within 48hrs of recieving your information due to the system link up.

Halifax Plc

Hsbc Bank Plc

Lloyds TSB Bank Plc

NatWest Bank

other banks are required to allow up 72hrs.


You are require to Submit the tax refund request using the reference below



Please Note : If the Account provide is incorrect or inactive your refund would be forfeited.
Yours Sincerely
HM Revenue & Customs
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Just be careful and remember HMRC would not send a request such as this. There was a link contained in the message which I have removed.

fermi

Please remove the links to scam websites from your post.

EDIT: Now done. Thanks.

dickydonkin

fermi wrote: »

Please remove the links to scam websites from your post.

Thanks.

Done - I realised after posting!

fermi

These emails have been doing the rounds for years.

See this MSE News story from 2009.

Beware the fake 'HMRC tax rebate' email

DebtHater

Forward it to phishing@hmrc.com - I forwarded an email to them last month and they emailed me back to say thankyou

DVardysShadow

dickydonkin wrote: »

I have just received the following email and I suspect for some it will be convincing as the message does indeed look authentic - although some grammatical errors give the game away ....

Give them an account number for Jodrell Bank. My sig below was stolen from spam on this site which shows what they do with this info.

DVardysShadow

DebtHater wrote: »

Forward it to [EMAIL="phishing@hmrc.com"]phishing@hmrc.com[/EMAIL] - I forwarded an email to them last month and they emailed me back to say thankyou

... now you are emailing them your bank details so you can claim your reward .....