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H.M. Revenue and Customs TAX scam


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One of our members has received an email purporting to come from H.M. Revenue and Customs, headed "Tax Refund Notification" and telling them he is due 188GBP as a refund. The email instructs him to open a link and insert his bank details. The email bore the H.M. Revenue and Customs insignia.
The email was a scam. Never give out bank details online in response to an unsolicited email.

Sent via the OWL system

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MyTunstall's picture

Email scammers

Submitted by MyTunstall on Thu, 2009/07/09 - 15:04.

I've just spent most of today, trying to plug a hole in one of our websites, which was actually sending these emails.

What happens is the hacker/spammer/fraudster looks for certain vunrabilities on a server, and if it can find a way to send a mail from it, it will.

The site in question, had a send an article to a friend, which was used by a little program to send a 1000 emails to various users from their list of email addresses.

ccna99's picture

http://www.moneysavingexpert.

Submitted by ccna99 on Sat, 2009/07/25 - 10:32.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2009/07/dont-get-conned-by...

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