Dodgy HMRC Emails

beabea81

Morning people!

Had an email from'HMRC' today stating:

After the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax rebate of: 332.79 Pounds
Regarding this, please click here in order to process your tax rebate.

TAX REBATE NUMBER: Please allow us 9 to 14 days to process your refunds.

Our head office address can be found on our web site at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/
Thank you,
HM Revenue & Customs Officer
William FULTON
www.hmrc.gov.uk


I'm not due any tax back and at no point have I given HMRC my email so I know this is a fake. Plus wouldn't it have a confidentiality bit at the bottom? It has no headers and doesn't use any of my names anywhere in the email, the one I recieved is exactly as posted here. On my actual email the 'click here' bit is a link and when I hover over it it gives the following at the bottom of my page: bambouzen.fr.
The linkt hat appears on this page for the HMRC website is not a clickable link on the email... it's a poor job really! lol

Obviously I haven't clicked on it but I wonder who I should, or even if I should, report this to? Do I report it to HMRC?


Thanks, Bea x

beabea81

A who is lookup provides a name and address but there is what appears to be a legitimate bambouzen.fr site. the address that appears when I hover is bambouzen.fr/mari.html???

RuthnJasper

Hi beabea81,

I've had a few of these emails - they are scams. Best reported to your ISP and then deleted.

Best wishes. x

beabea81

I figured it was...it's not even a good attempt at one lol

Will report to Sky after dinner

tallyhoh

They want to vigorously criminally pursue & persecute me if I dont click the link.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

crazyguy

I didnt think the HMRC ever emailed any thing to anyone especialy regarding a refund !

beabea81

LMAO! I love the 'Your HSBC account has been hacked' ones...a)I've never had a HSBC account but 10/10 for trying and b) its h-a-c-k-e-d not h-a-K-e-d!

RuthnJasper

beabea81 wrote: »

LMAO! I love the 'Your HSBC account has been hacked' ones...a)I've never had a HSBC account but 10/10 for trying and b) its h-a-c-k-e-d not h-a-K-e-d!

Yeah, the amateurish nature of some of them defy belief. Sadly, there are always those one or two that look convincing enough to dupe an unsuspecting person...