Phishy emails from the taxman

Tony

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We've warned several times this year about phishing scams which purport to offer you a tax rebate (here, here and here). In fact, emails that appear to come from the taxman are really from fraudsters on the hunt for sensitve...

Phishy emails from the taxman (External link to Mirror Blog)
 

mlewis09

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I've had two such e-mails in the last month, offering me a combined tax rebate of nearly £900.

Being self-employed, I am on top of my tax issues, and know that its not true.

One tip I can give people, the e-mail seems to have an attached pdf.html file, this is not a usual file extention and almost certainly takes you to a phishing website.