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recieved the following email this Morning...
'Dear tax payer,
We hereby call your attention to your tax refund that has accrued up to ?1,453.27 GBP.
We advise that you respond in order to begin the process of your tax refund.
If you do not respond, your tax refund process will not be carried out.
To begin process, download and open the attachment in this mail and
follow the direction to complete your tax refund process. '
ok so it looks like an obvious scam to me, spelling ,istakes etc;;.. however i am a student and i AM owed around 450 squids!
the link on the email also links me to the HMRC website.
So Confused!
it's a scam
Ask yourself - why do HMRC have your e-mail address but not your name?
hmrc were on tv the other morning saying they DO NOT email. ignore it.
Scam, HMRC have already said they will not contact via e-mail - I think it is on their website too.
ok so it looks like an obvious scam to me, spelling ,istakes etc;;.. however i am a student and i AM owed around 450 squids!the link on the email also links me to the HMRC website.
So Confused!
🙄 seriously, stop and think for a moment.......
Kept getting them at work a while ago. When did HMRC every actively pursue you to pay back overpayments. If it's to good to be true it is.
what are you studying? I hope the course is easy cus you've nae chance with any tricky questions in the exams
looks like a few people have had it too!
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=426112&v=1#x6035609
ok so it looks like an obvious scam to me, spelling ,istakes etc;;.. however i am [s]a[/s] stu[s]dent[/s]pid and i AM owed around 450 squids!
nothing to see here...
WTF! How can HMRC owe a soap dodging scrounging stoodent money?
Of course it is genuine.....your monies is waiting.
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If you've downloaded and opened the attachment, go directly to www.malwarebytes.org, do not pass Go, do not collect £1453.27.
As for your tax rebate, deal directly with the HMRC, ignore the email.
look at the IP address that the link takes you to...
'Dear tax payer, [i]<-- Aside from the fact they have your name, it should be Tax Payer.[/i]
We hereby call your attention to your tax refund that has accrued up to ?1,453.27 GBP. [i] <-- "We call your attention to" is wrong. "That" should be "which". If they've given an exact figure, why say "up to"? Finally, we never use the initials GBP in the UK. We also have a pound sign, which Nigerian scammers' keyboards often lack. And who uses the word "hereby" any more?[/i]
We advise that you respond in order to begin the process of your tax refund.[i] <-- A genuine email would simply give instructions.[/i]
If you do not respond, your tax refund process will not be carried out. [i]<-- And the usual scammer threat of losing the money.[/i]
To begin process, download and open the attachment in this mail and
follow the direction to complete your tax refund process. ' [i]<-- To begin THE process. Also, follow the DIRECTIONS (with an s) and they've repeated the word process at the beginning and the end.[/i]
A genuine email would have been (should have been!) vetted by several people designed to remove content like this, in the phenomenally unlikely chance of being sent out in the first place. It should be more than spelling that draws your attention to scam messages.
Frankly, the fact that you're a student and that you nearly fell for this suggests that you can't exactly be studying anything particularly taxing in the first place. (Pun not originally intended but after consideration kept).