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Scammers seize on tax rebates as phishing lure

Fraudsters have wasted no time jumping on news of a tax mix-up in the UK as a hook for scams. Up to six million people in the UK had paid the wrong amount of tax as a result of HMRC mistakes with employee PAYE codes. Around 4.3 million are due for a refund while 1.4 million face demands* to hand over an average £1,428 each. GFI …

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Richard Scratcher
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When will these scammer's, ever learn

The sample letter on the GFI security page is littered with punctuation errors such as missing full-stops, misplaced and missing commas. The letter begins "Dear Applicant" but the reader isn't an applicant yet.

And why would the UK tax office need use the abbreviation GBP to describe the "over [sic] payment"?

These people are giving HMRC a bad name.

Anonymous Coward
Joke
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actually ...

a perfectly spelled and puctuated email would be *more* suspicous. i would wander wot their up to ?

Anonymous John
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Re When will these scammer's (sic), ever learn

Pot, meet kettle.

Richard Scratcher
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@Anon John

Only spotted 1 out of 3?

Must do better!

isurrenderall
FAIL

I got the exact email

I received the exact same e-mail about 2 days ago. Same e-mail address, same tax rebate amount. Always funny when they send e-mails to hughjass@mydomain.

Tigra 07

Woo Hoo!

I already know i'm expected a refund, i paid tax on the first 7k i earned, which is illegal apparently

dreamingspire
Unhappy

Many variants of those emails circulating for some time

These emails are not new. Both US English and British English versions have been arriving here for months, some with an attached file, some with online links. None seen this month (yet), though...

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