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Fraudulent email? HMRC or not?

Jul 6th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

HM Revenue and Customs have now produced a webpage providing details of the scams that are currenly hitting the nations  ‘inboxes’.

The HMRC website provides details of the  the e-mail addresses used as well as methods and examples of the various scams.

The latest example from the website and posted just last month states:

Approval of funds scam email – 19 June 2009

An email is being issued displaying the email address postmaster@hmrc.co.uk with the subject ‘You are a winner of 168,240.00 GBP’. The email features an attachment and requests that personal details are recorded on the attachment and forwarded to info@lloydstsbprize.com.

To find out more go to:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm

If you are a recipient of such e mails you need to forward them to phishing@hmrc.gov.uk

Sharing of such information ensures that the offenders are more likely to be stopped!!