OT - Another Scam Attempt

This is a placeholder text
Group text

by Kaffirdog on 10 February 2009 - 15:02

What a scam!

Just got this in my email, but before you all prepare to join me in a big party, I really can't see the UK Inland Revenue sending me an email and signing off "Best Regards" can you?

Margaret N-J
"It's never too late to be who you were meant to be" www.nyrvana.co.uk

--- On Tue, 10/2/09, HM Treasury of United Kingdom <service@hm-treasury.gov.uk> wrote:

From: HM Treasury of United Kingdom <service@hm-treasury.gov.uk>
Subject: Tax Refund - £869,52
To:
Date: Tuesday, 10 February, 2009, 3:32 PM

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have
determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of Ј869,52.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 days in order to
process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access your tax refund, please click here

Best Regards,
Tax Refund Deparment
HM Treasury
© Copyright 2009, HM Treasury of United Kingdom. All rights reserved

by AnjaBlue on 10 February 2009 - 16:02

These people get more creative all the time! (Did you check the link, or is that asking for trouble?)

And no - I can't see them saying best regards, though this is supposed to be coming from Her Majesty's Treasury, so the poster probably thinks he's more credible if he's polite.......I love the part that states "A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons" - yep, delayed for ever!

by MI_GSD on 10 February 2009 - 17:02

It's a phishing scam. I got the same exact email but from the IRS.

by Kaffirdog on 10 February 2009 - 17:02

The link just asked for my bank details to send the money to. There's a couple of typos and the pounds and pence are separated with a comma instead of a full stop. In UK, tax is not dealt with by the Treasury, but the Inland Revenue, who are strictly "Dear Mr/Mrs/Sir/Madam" and "Yours sincerely/Faithfully" in their correspondence.

I think I will start up an "English Scam" business and sell these scammers template letters with correct spelling, punctuation etc.

Margaret N-J
"It's never too late to be who you were meant to be" www.nyrvana.co.uk

by Kelly M Shaw on 10 February 2009 - 18:02

Sorry to say I get those every day from different countries, and I am sooo sick of it!!!

by Jyl on 11 February 2009 - 09:02

I got the same email from the IRS also....what will these people think of next?

by Kenan on 11 February 2009 - 13:02

Don't blame them for trying.
Blame yourself if you fall for it.

by Kaffirdog on 11 February 2009 - 13:02

It seems unbelievable that people do fall for them though, I actually know someone who sent off money to a scammer who telephoned him and told him he had won a lottery that he must have realised he hadn't bought a ticket for and that he needed to send the money to administrate the sending of a million pounds or whatever. The silly sod even took out a bank loan to to send them the money!

I felt sorry for him for being so gullible, but at the end of the day he was a vistim of his own greed.

Margaret N-J

Contact information Disclaimer Privacy Statement Copyright Information Terms of Service Cookie policy ↑ Back to top

OT - Another Scam Attempt - Page 1

Pedigree Database