numbnuts
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Never had one of these before
A new scam to me
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S-Express
Guest
Yep. Message sent to 'undisclosed recipients' who all, apparently, have the same amount of £148.44 outstanding. Also seems legit
Tin Pot
Guru
I was surprised this got through the Apple filters to my inbox the other day.
I guess we're lucky theres still enough shoddy attempts like this to keep people on their toes for when the sophisticated ones land.
Never trust the header data.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
And I am due a big refund from the tax that I haven't paid! 
jefmcg
Guru
The header data seems to be useful in know instantly it's a scam, in this case. They would not send it to "undisclosed recipients", you only do that if you are sending to multiple people. And the sender isn't "...gov.uk"
So definitely a scam. Note that both those things could be corrected in a scam. Being right would be no proof of legitimacy but being wrong proves it a scam/spam/phishing.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
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i wonder how many people fall for these
Globalti
Legendary Member
It's tragic. The Government or its public broadcasting organisation the BBC ought to be doing more to alert people about this; fraud is the fastest-growing crime in the world. Old, wealthy folk are the most vulnerable because they grew up without computers and at a time when most people could still be trusted.
classic33
Leg End Member
Is that the one via paypal, from the council?And I am due a big refund from the tax that I haven't paid!
Send them an email they have website, see if they know someone is scamming using their name.
https://www.cartakeback.com/
https://www.cartakeback.com/
Globalti
Legendary Member
Radio 4 PM had a tragic story at about 5.45 last night - a retired programmer aged 67 whose wife had died suddenly leaving him terribly lonely. He went on a Russian dating site and fell for a woman who scammed him out of £80,000 before he realised she was a fraudster when she failed to arrive at Gatwick. The man sounded absolutely broken.
jefmcg
Guru
Don't bother. There's nothing they can do to stop it, and anyway, they'd know. Any bad addresses in the spammers list will cause the messages to be bounced back to the apparently "sender". Their email box is probably overflowing with returned spam.
Tin Pot
Guru
You know this isn't a rebuttal of my statement, right?
jefmcg
Guru
You can trust the "received:" field inserted by your mail provider, which are very useful in identifying a scam.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Don't you remember THIS THREAD with an almost identical scenario?
Nope. It was supposed to be from the Inland Revenue!
For some reason the IR had decided to send the message from an undisguised email account like
adodgy12345address76jkl@phishingscammers 6738.somewhere_not_uk, which didn't exactly stand up to scrutiny!
The fact that I haven't paid any tax was a big clue.
And starting the email with 'Hello dear mister' didn't help them much either ....
