Letter From HMRC Re: Ebay Account

Flyonthewall

Stuck_1 wrote: »

HMRC will use the email address customers provided for receiving

this is what HMRC tell people on their site, which sounds safe,

the example i put sounds dodgy, with that example you haven't provided an email your being given one to contact

I have never provided HMRC with an email address. So how would you suggest they contact me via email, my prefered choice of contact?

Oh yeah, I email them first! How do I do that? Through the email they gave me in the letter with all genuine information and warnings about emailing personal information.

Perfectly safe.

It is NOT dodgy. It does not sound dodgy to anyone but you and you still haven't said any logic reason why you think it is dodgy. Many companies do the exact same thing! They have done for many years.

They've contacted you by letter and given options so you can choose how to contact them back. Even if they did already have your email they haven't contacted you that way and they're not mind readers, they don't know you'll want to contact them that way hence why they give you multiple options in the letter.

Once you've sent an email they'd reply back to the same one.

It's not logical to assume that because they've told you their email that it's dodgy. They gave you their phone number too, but you don't see that as dodgy so why an Earth would an email be any different? It's not.

Flyonthewall

Stuck_1 wrote: »

these are emails addresses hmrc are saying arn't theirs, so someone else is obviously getting the information your sending, i dare say the above ones are shut down they were from while back, but scamming people is getting more advance these day & more and more easier

Only if you send it to them emails. It's not going there otherwise and you'd still have to give personal details for it to matter which is not something you should do.

Stuck_1 wrote: »

email contact to scam is miles to obvious these days,
phone contact, letters through the door will be the way forward

Yes, but that letter is not an email scam. Email scams are usually done entirely through email (so they'd email you first, not send a letter).

You realise there are many phone scams and have been for many many years? lol.

Stuck_1

OK i shall consider all the advise/comments

thanks

anamenottaken

Stuck_1 wrote: »

these are emails addresses hmrc are saying arn't theirs, so someone else is obviously getting the information your sending, i dare say the above ones are shut down they were from while back, but scamming people is getting more advance these day & more and more easier

HMRC, in their online advise, mention a number of email addresses which are not used by them to send emails. (They are not about addresses to which you may be invited to reply but addresses which scammers may try to suggest are the senders.)

getmore4less

Stuck_1 wrote: »

these are emails addresses hmrc are saying arn't theirs, so someone else is obviously getting the information your sending, i dare say the above ones are shut down they were from while back, but scamming people is getting more advance these day & more and more easier

If the domain is a valid HMRC one, the emails do not go somewhere else.

theoretica

Stuck_1 wrote: »

these are emails addresses hmrc are saying arn't theirs, so someone else is obviously getting the information your sending, i dare say the above ones are shut down they were from while back, but scamming people is getting more advance these day & more and more easier

Where are you looking for email addresses hmrc say are bogus? The list I found does not have any gsi addresses on it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phishing-and-bogus-emails-hm-revenue-and-customs-examples

patanne

When did HMRC change their info about using email. Not too long ago it used to be - we may send you an email reminding you it is time to file whatever (such as your VAT return), we will not send one asking you to reply giving personal information via email.

Stuck_1

patanne wrote: »

When did HMRC change their info about using email. Not too long ago it used to be - we may send you an email reminding you it is time to file whatever (such as your VAT return), we will not send one asking you to reply giving personal information via email.

They didn't!

as someone said earlier in the thread this will have the reverse effect & hmrc will be worse of if they drive away small internet sellers, i don't think they realise how much turnover these small sellers combined give to Royal Mail (& sub let Post Offices) , Royal Mail profits will fall on their @rse, which in turn would bring staff cuts ect, but on the plus side at least you will get served quicker at the PO.

Takeaway_Addict

Stuck_1 wrote: »

They didn't!

as someone said earlier in the thread this will have the reverse effect & hmrc will be worse of if they drive away small internet sellers, i don't think they realise how much turnover these small sellers combined give to Royal Mail (& sub let Post Offices) , Royal Mail profits will fall on their @rse, which in turn would bring staff cuts ect, but on the plus side at least you will get served quicker at the PO.

Utter rubbish

Flyonthewall

Stuck_1 wrote: »

They didn't!

as someone said earlier in the thread this will have the reverse effect & hmrc will be worse of if they drive away small internet sellers, i don't think they realise how much turnover these small sellers combined give to Royal Mail (& sub let Post Offices) , Royal Mail profits will fall on their @rse, which in turn would bring staff cuts ect, but on the plus side at least you will get served quicker at the PO.

I don't know who the someone is that you refer to, but that's rubbish.

HMRC can't possibly be worse off, they can only possibly gain from it.

If those who aren't paying tax stop selling then HMRC don't lose out from that, they were never gaining anything to lose.

If they stop selling then people who would have bought from them would then buy elsewhere. So Royal Mail wouldn't lose out at all and HMRC would be gaining money from the businesses that people buy from instead.

The only people to lose out are those selling as a business and not declaring it and they deserve to lose out because they're breaking the law.