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01 Feb 2010
An email scam was sent to thousands of people prior to the self assessment tax filing deadline.
Email recipients were told they were eligible for a tax refund and needed to fill in a form with their bank details. Information passed on was then used to clear out bank accounts, reported the BBC.
HMRC said that it would never use email, telephone calls or external companies to inform of a refund.
Around 20,000 emails were sent out in the last week.
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No Brains!
People who fell for this have no brains - how could anyone be taken in by such a thing? It beats me!
Posted by: Ken Stones, 02 Feb 2010 | 00:00