It looked too good to be true!

[marisca]

... and of course, it is a scam. Got an email purporting to be from HM Government complete with fake https:// address. No idea how the perpetrators intend to extract money from me with it, and I don't intend to find out. You have been warned!



HM Revenue & Customs
Tax Credit Office
Preston
PR1 0SB
office@hmrc.gov.uk 27-11-2009

Dear Applicant,

Please note that you can apply for tax refund, after the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund.
Please take few minutes to check your refund amount, your Tax File Number (TFN): 731948115.
(See the tax privacy note in the Taxpayer's declaration on page 8 of your tax refund)

NOTE: For your safety please do not reveal your TFN to others.

The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and as applicable, copyright in these is reserved to HM Revenue & Customs.
Click on the link bellow:

https://www.hmrc.gov.uk/formrefunds/tax.file.number/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sincerely,
HM Revenue & Customs
Officer Mary Palmer
mary.palmer@hmrc.gov.uk

[Nick]

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It's that time of year - many peeps will have filed at the end of September and some will still be waiting to hear.

HMG send you a letter if you are due a rebate, not an email, and rebates are usually paid straight into your bank. (You will probably have already given them your bank details on your tax return, and if you have not and have opted to receive any rebate by cheque then they are unlikely to ask you for bank details!).

I got my first one of these a week after recieveing a (real) tax rebate through the post.

[puddock]

Looks like the site has been pulled now anyway.

[marisca]

Looks like the site has been pulled now anyway.

Sorry, that was me doing copy + paste from the email text. In the email if you were cavalier enough to click on it, it redirected you to http://www.hmrc.gov.uk.formsrefunds.com ... 4125491817

In the unlikely event of the authors sending you money (aye, right!), remember it belongs to me!

[lady_stormrider]

The postal address is correct - for the tax credit office. However they do not handle direct and indirect tax refunds. The HMRC has a list on their website (which has got an honourable mention in some recent Computing Awards)

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Note to self - must get all paperwork together so I can claim for a Westerly Centaur as an offshore tax haven before 31st January 2010. Does Thirty feet off the foreshore of Windermere count?

[sahona]

LadyS, Why would you keep your tailor's cloth-stretching machine that far away from the sewing room?
Bring it inshore a bit, your tax claim is less likely to be bounced.
You must be a seamstress, you've had us in stic.....
Oh, forget it.

[lady_stormrider]

I'll have you know I am wearing my official Guild of Seamstresses T-shirt as I type. A pressie from the Skipper.

Their motto is 'Where the customer comes first' (no, really)