Anyone else had an email saying they are due a tax refund of xxx amount and then asking for all your details for it to be paid into your account?. I'd sooner forfeit the xxx amount than be scammed
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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago
not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds) |
Ring them up,, they ll confirm if you re due, sounds fishy to me,,  |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"Anyone else had an email saying they are due a tax refund of xxx amount and then asking for all your details for it to be paid into your account?. I'd sooner forfeit the xxx amount than be scammed
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The Inland Revenue never send emails like that out - it is a scam. Have you ever contacted them by email? How would they have got your email addy?
Someone is phishing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They NEVER send emails, they usually send a letter then a cheque a few days later.
Or in my case a cheque for £500 arrives before the letter and panics me. |
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"Anyone else had an email saying they are due a tax refund of xxx amount and then asking for all your details for it to be paid into your account?. I'd sooner forfeit the xxx amount than be scammed
The Inland Revenue never send emails like that out - it is a scam. Have you ever contacted them by email? How would they have got your email addy?
Someone is phishing."
they wouldn't have access to anything, I've not filled any forms in or given them any information
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"Anyone else had an email saying they are due a tax refund of xxx amount and then asking for all your details for it to be paid into your account?. I'd sooner forfeit the xxx amount than be scammed
The Inland Revenue never send emails like that out - it is a scam. Have you ever contacted them by email? How would they have got your email addy?
Someone is phishing.they wouldn't have access to anything, I've not filled any forms in or given them any information
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Like I said , someone is phishing for your bank details. I've had these - they go straight in to junk. Same with ones from the bank.
Banks and the IR never send emails. They are sent out in block to a list of email addys that the fraudsters will have obtained in one way or another. They are bait used in the hope that some naive person will give their details - and then simply use those details to rip you off.
Put it in your spam folder and think no more about it. |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"Its gone, I assumed it was a scam, just wondered if anyone else had had it. Bet there is people that fall for it
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Most likely or they would not bother. I think they send out thousands and if just a handful respond they can make a fair amount of money by tapping in to their accounts or buying goods online using their details.
I only know all this as I have had fraud on my account years ago. Someone (before chip and pin) managed to clone my card and spent £3000 online using my details. Luckily my bank were on the ball and I lost nothing. They called me whilst I was away asking where I was and what I was spending. It turned out someone was buying stuff in Guildford but I was in Dresden and had just used my card to get money out of an ATM which is what alerted my bank.
Now, if I go away I have to tell my bank where and when so they don't stop my card on me! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Scam and phishing emails can be reported online to the police. They advise you to just delete after reporting."
The best person to report them to is the ICO - the Information Commissioner's Office -
They want to collate all scam and phishing type activities including those PPI text messages to your phones  |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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if you had a letter from the inland revenue I would delete that because they haven't been known as that for the last 3 years at least...
i know that it is not normally the done thing to put down telephone numbers... but If you give them a call, they can confirm they had sent you something....
correspondance is normally done by mail... if they ever need to call you they will tell you who they are from, and ask you a few security questions before they are allowed to reveal the nature of the call.... they are not allowed to leave answer machine messages |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I flatly refuse to answer security questions asked by anybody that calls me. If they are calling me it's up to them to prove who THEY are, not the other way round."
We always ask for a name a department and a number and say we are going to contact the police first to find out if its genuine on both occasions there was no further reply and never a contact number. Sadly there are far too many scammers out there the penalties for this need tightening up. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"I flatly refuse to answer security questions asked by anybody that calls me. If they are calling me it's up to them to prove who THEY are, not the other way round."
if that is the case, which you are perfectly entitled to... they can give you their full name, and their team number, and a telephone number for you to give them a call back on... or a general telephone number... and they should be able to put you thru to the correct people...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not all emails are scams!!
I am waiting for some funds to be released from foreign banks.... they chose me to help them and they are giving me millions and I have only had to send them a few thousand!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone else had an email saying they are due a tax refund of xxx amount and then asking for all your details for it to be paid into your account?. I'd sooner forfeit the xxx amount than be scammed
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Hubby received a cheque with attached letter with his refund through the post and did not have to fill in any form |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone else had an email saying they are due a tax refund of xxx amount and then asking for all your details for it to be paid into your account?. I'd sooner forfeit the xxx amount than be scammed
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its defo a scam... we were warned about it by our accounts office at work weeks ago.  |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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Hubby received a cheque with attached letter with his refund through the post and did not have to fill in any form"
That's the norm. HMRC send rebates by letter with a tear-off cheque attached to the bottom.
It helps them confirm they have the correct address and allows them to check the bank account you pay it into. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Did you open any attachment to the email?
If you did run something like Malwarebytes immediately."
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS !!!!!!
These scams can download stuff to try and access stuff from your computer.
Malwarebytes is free and dead easy to use, run it for piece of mind |
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