Tax rebate scam warning!

bagginslover

Ijust received an email claiming to be from HM Revenue and Customs, notifying me of my elegability to receive £868.40,and to submit my refund request via their attachment.....No thanks!! :rotfl:

The emai lcame from address [EMAIL="onlineservice@iserv.net"]onlineservice@iserv.net[/EMAIL]

darrell_bowmer

I had the same email with the exact same amount. Don't open the attachment. ITS A SCAM.

jimjames

You'll also get ones from banks pretending that you have an account with them and African dictators offering to share their fortune so beware!

IT-Paul

Probably worth emailing [EMAIL="info@iserv.net"]info@iserv.net[/EMAIL] and reporting it to the ISP. That way they can check there servers and stop any further spamming from there email addresses if that's the case.

squirrell1

I had an email today from hmrc saying I was eligible for a tax rebate of £103. It didn't mention my name and had lots of spelling inaccuracies - 'your' instead of 'you're' etc. It also had capital letters where they didn't belong, and gave no name. It had a link to open but I didn't risk it because I am sure they wouldn't approach me by email so I reported as phishing. I (think it also had HMRC in the address line wiht another word in front of it (I've deleted and reported it so can't check! )

lordbase

Yeah HMRC have a policy of not communicating by email (which is very frustrating for us tax advisors) as they don't feel it's a secure method of communication.

However, they are piloting a scheme where they will start to use email over the next few months, just with agents initially, but I guess will roll it out to the general public after that - which will open the spamming floodgates!