I have had an email from HMRC - could it be genuineNTV

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antonic wrote: »

the email address is wrong - HMRC email addresses are composed in a VERY specific way.

Which I am NOT going to reveal.

That's really useful. How is a non-expert supposed to recognize if it is wrong then?

Ebe_Scrooge

There's a lot of these flying around at the moment. From the HMRC website http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm

"HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will never send notifications of a tax rebate / refund by email, or ask you to disclose personal or payment information by email."

I actually had a quite sophisticated one once, looked very official, and at the bottom were links to things like FAQs, Contact Us, etc. These actually linked to the genuine HMRC website - it was just the link asking for your credit card details that was false.

mgdavid

zygurat789 wrote: »

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Who reads security advice pages anyway they're about as understandable as T & Cs of an insurance policy.........

give it a few months and you'll be back on here with some tale of woe about how you've been 'scammed' or 'ripped off' which on examination will be self-inflicted because you can't be bothered to read and understand that which every other sensible person does.