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Tax Refund Scam
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Received an email today purporting to come from HM Revenue and Customs, saying 'your tax refund will be processed soon', with a long reference number. I'm not due any tax refund and didn't open it, but has anyone else received one of these emails?
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Yes, Cap'n, have deleted it. Only saw the first line as I use Hotmail, and in the Inbox you can read the first line of the email before you open it. Have been bothered with a few of these in the past months from 'Amazon Prime', 'iTunes' and 'PayPal', all saying they were processing something I'd ordered (I hadn't)
There should be several giveaways- such as they don't seem to know your name or refer to yourself by your email name- so "dear mr fiction-factory", there will be some strange wording that sounds as if it has gone through 3 languages on Google translate - something like"due to a review and utmost verification of your fiscal obligations it has been established beyond doubt that, " and if you hover over the sender's name or look at the mesage headers the actual senders name will not be HMRC.
I have had the occasonal email from HMRC but it always contains an identifying reference- name and part of NI number- and tells me to log on to my personal tax account (and not via ta link!)
I have had the occasonal email from HMRC but it always contains an identifying reference- name and part of NI number- and tells me to log on to my personal tax account (and not via ta link!)
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