Bluddy Scammers - Do They Think I'm Daft - Rhetorical Question, Don't Answer ;-)

[Canary42]

Such an obvious scam from the wording, so many clues as to its bogusness, and the e-mail address it came from is even more of a giveaway - it was [email protected] (I would invite you all to flame it, but that will only give them a further e-mail address harvest of potential targets).

Here is the body of the e-mail, with link removed.

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* Pending Tax Repayment

* We are sending this email tо annоunce that after the last annual calculatiоn of yоur fiscal activity we have determined that yоu are eligible to receive a tax refund оf 550.44 GBP.

* Tax refund requests have limited time and is very impоrtant to resоlve yоur claim as soоn as pоssible.

* It оnly takes a few min to cоmplete and please take nоte of the follоwing:

* Tax Reference No: 2020/2270449/FGB

* You have until February 28, 2020 to make оnline claim.

* We are оnly able to prоcess a refund for the annual tax that has been described above.

* You shоuld wait 4 weeks after making an оnline claim and 6 weeks after making a postal claim befоre cоntacting НΜRC about the payment.

[Old_Geezer]

Got a "press 1 to start something to do with Amazon Prime" call the other day.

Also a text re tax refund. Forwarded it to the tax office spam number.

[Peter Pedant]

Beasts !

[bookbinder]

I recently received an email, apparently from someone who was acting for the Ford car company. The email asked me complete an online survey, in which I was requested to give my opinion of my Ford B-Max. This was, allegedly, intended to help Ford to improve the B-Max. I immediately suspected a scam:
1. I drive, at the moment, a Ford Eco-Sport, which I have owned for 1 year.
2. I did, indeed, own a B-Max, which I gave in part exchange for the Eco-Sport.
3. Does Ford really want to improve the B-Max, a car that is no longer built? Production ended in June, 2019.
4. The message and its use of the Ford logo looked convincing, until I realised that someone was asking questions about a car that is no longer made.
5. That someone plainly wanted me to give my personal details, but they were disappointed.

[Tuvok]

Did you see Panorama about scam call centres?

Look these up on YouTube - Kitboga, Jim Browning and Scammer Payback

[woofgang]

they make a lot of moolah out of these emails otherwise they wouldn't do it, likewise the phonecalls!