HMRC Scammers be aware

fluffnutter

Coopdivi wrote: »

It would only look genuine if your name was Mr. Applicant.

And you thought it was normal in Britain to denote currency as 'GBP'. And you thought it was normal to capitalise 'Internet Banking Account'. (And that you actually have an 'internet banking account' whatever one of those is - an account with Smile or First Direct or one of the other solely internet based banks?).

yangptangkipperbang

Callie22 wrote: »

I somehow doubt that HMRC sign off their emails with 'best regards' ...

The rest of the email was written by a six year old, looking at the standard of the English :D

Mylo_The_Moggy

I've just had a so called 'email' from HMRC regarding 'my self assesment'.
Yeh right, and I'm the Queen of Sheeba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never done a self assessment in my life, & I've never given them my email either.

HMRC NEVER email you out of the blue, they always write & send the old fashioned way through the post.

Received the following:


<applicant@hmrks.co.uk>

Dear Applicant:

Under the last self assessment, we investigated your payments for the last five
years and our calculations shows you made over payments of 285.83 GBP.


Due to the high volume of returns you must complete the Return Form.
There are now only a few cases where HM Revenue & Customs
still allows you to send your tax return on paper, instead of sending it online,
without getting a penalty.


Please complete the Tax Return Form

nickcc

Fruitcake wrote: »

The thing to remember about HMRC is that they will only ever contact you by post. They never telephone, they never email, they never ever use any other form of contact than good old fashioned paper sent to you at your address. Anything else is a fake.
You can of course contact HMRC by post, 'phone or email, but they will only ever contact you by post.

If only you were able to contact HMRC by email. They admit that many customers would find this a preferable way to contact them but email contact is only available for very few departments. I've just spent over 1 hour trying to get through using their contact phone number, I even tried the 0300 number instead of the 0845 number but still a total waste of my life. By the time you have listened to all the different options, pressed all the different buttons and still get no reply except for totally insane music, life no longer seems worth living especially as its a HMRC mistake in the first place, "O" well back to putting pen to paper, what a total waste of space HMRC have become.

brettcta

i sometimes feel like these scam emails are natural selection in action.

if you're stupid enough to fall for it, then it's your own fault.

obviously, if you're vulnerable (i.e. old, mentally ill etc), then fair enough, but if you're of sound mind and still fall for scam emails, then suck it up and take it as a life lesson.