Most of us are wise to email scams these days.
Banks and other major organisations (including government departments such as HMRC) do not ask for personal details via email or over the phone.
The following email was rightly sent to spam by GMail but it's worth highlighting just in case you get a copy.
There is an attachment HTML form attached. Do not click on it or save it. Most of all do not fill it in.
Scammers are phishing for your banking details.
Dear Applicant:
Following an upgrade of our computer systems and review of our records we have investigated your payments and latest tax returns over the last seven years our calculations show you have made over payments of GBP 323.56
Due to the high volume of refunds due you must complete the on line application, the telephone help line is unable to assist with this application.In order to process your refund you will need to complete the attached application form.
Your refund may take up to 3 weeks to process please make sure you complete the form correctly.
To access your tax refund, please follow the steps below:
- download the Tax Refund Form attached to this email
- open it in a browser
- follow the instructions on your screen
Regards,
HM Revenue & Customs
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Strange you should say Phil, over the last two days I have had 19 notifications of tax refunds, plus twelve security warnings addressed to me by name from 'Nat West', the 'Nat West' ones would be a concern except we don't bank with them!
I get emails that appear to be from Nat West too Phil ...and I don't bank with them either:)
I hope to retire in the next day or two as a Nigerian princess is about to put £12m into my bank account and I will get to keep £3m of it.
Great news! ;)
John Baker said: