Possible Scam Alert

[Ken4155]

Don't know whether this is the right place to post this and perhaps i should have put it up on Chatterbank.

Just received an email purporting to be from HMRC ([email protected]) and i post it here word for word, complete with bad grammar and Americanised spelling.

"After the last yearly computations of your financial functioning we have defined that you have the right to obtain a tax rebate of 934.80. Please confirm the tax rebate claim and permit us have 6-9 days so that we execute it. A rebate can be postponed for a variety of reasons. For instance confirming unfounded data or applying not in time.

To access the form for your tax rebate, view the report attached. Document reference (9205468).

Regards, HM Revenue Service. We apologize for the inconvenience."

I did not view the attached report (which was blocked by my internet security). Had i done so, no doubt i would be asked lots of personal details, sort code, acc number, etc.

Fortunately i am wise enough to realise that if i was in line for a tax rebate, HMRC would, in all probability, contact me by letter, as i have had no dealings with them on line. Some, though, will be caught out, especially if they believe that they stand to gain almost a £1,000.

[jno]

just so, HMRC, banks etc don't contact you by email, though you can deal with them via their own online sites.

[Baldric]

Think you're probably right, you just reminded me I must get in touch with my Nigerian Uncle as he wants to send me Loadsa money!

[Ken4155]

^^
Give him my best regards, baldric, and tell him to send some my way:-)

[jno]

oh, I don't need a Nigerian uncle, I got my fortune directly from someone who looted Gadaffi's bunker.

[jno]

on a smaller scale: a neighbour recently answered her door to a delivery man who said someone had sent her chocolates and flowers. She couldn't think who the sender could be but paid the £2.95 delivery charge with her credit card and took the goods. Next day, £4000 had been taken off the card.

[Baldric]

Yeh, ok, but it looks like a really good deal, all I have to do is send him the Legal Fees (£12500:00) and I'll be.................


..................................................................£12500:00 poorer

[HansUrbancka]

It's a scam. HMRC are aware of many such, but you can still inform them of yours.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/fraud-scams.htm

[Hopkirk]

I once got one from RBS, but they wrote it out in full.

Unfortunately the spelt the first word as Ryoal.

[woofgang]

I love the ones from HMRC that address me as "Dear Friend"