Suss e-mail?

[Bbbananas]

I have just received an e-mail, supposedly from the HM Revenues Agency, saying I have a rebate due for over £430. Nice one - but I suspect this is one of those e-mail scams so I am too afraid to click onto any link.

Surely, if a rebate was due, and I ignored any e-mails, they would write to my home address? I'm not stupid enough to give away any bank details or personal details by e-mail, but I don't want to lose out on anything genuine.....

Anyone else had these e-mails?

[milly143]

They would write to you surely. Besides, have you every given them your e-mail address?

[marval]

I had one, it was a scam

[jackthehat]

If you click and go to the 'next page' the ones I have received ask for details of the account 'to be debited'...............

It is a scam pure and simple.

[Bbbananas]

Not that I can remember. I will wait for the letter - not as though I expect one to ever arrive.....!

[ChuckFickens]

Yep, exactly as milly said, how would they know your email address.

"I bet if you look closely it will have come from a obviously fake email address too)

[ChuckFickens]

LOL, Open quotes, close Brackets...nice :)

[Bbbananas]

much as I thought then............. ;-(

[Davethedog]

Salla - How do they have your E-mail? Even though I have filed a return on line I have have always got letters never e-mails.

I would let them know thats the taxman not the scammer.

[annie0000]

HMRC would never email you - they do everything by snail mail.

[whiskeryron]

salla, it won't hurt to report it to the police, there are far too many of these scams about & it's time we all started to report them. Ron.

[mccfluff]

morning me dear

you report it here

http://www.hmrc.gov.u...y/phishing-emails.htm

[ChuckFickens]

They won't do anything about it if you do report it.

there are millions of scam emails a day so there simply isn't the manpower available to investigate them, add to that the fact that 99.9% of scam mails will come from abroad tehn even if they did investigate them UK authorities have no power to do anything about it.

[boxtops]

Defo duff, salla, there have been several threads about this on here in the past. HMRC say they will never email about anything like this, they will write to you, and they warned that with the current rounds of tax collections and rebates, it's an ideal time for the scammers to jump on the bandwagon... have a look here. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm

then do as mcfluff suggests, report it to HMRC as a phishing email, then bin it!

[Bbbananas]

Duly reported.... They're scumbags doncha know....

Pity - and I had a frission of excitement for a few second there. COuld really do with a rebate of £430 just before christmas.

[ummmm]

HMRC never email.

[squarebear]

Everyone gets them. Just delete it and please DON'T forward it on to report it. That makes you as bad as the spammer. The HMRC will do nothing with your report.

Isn't everyone wise to these sorts of scams now? Anything that doesn't mention you by name is surely a scam.