Consumer news and scams

[DaveR]

Google are welcome to look at my emails, I doubt they'll find anything of interest in them. 

[Ian]

Oh, you never know...   

[Yorkie]

It seems that it is my lucky day!  Link removed.



Tax Refund Notification

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 358.50 GBP. Please submit the tax refund request and allow 6-9 days in order to process it.

Note: A refund cand be delayed a variety of reasons, for example submitting invalid records or applying after deadline.

Yours sincerely,
HM Revenue & Customs
Refund Department

[Ian]

 

[Yorkie]

Here is today's scam.

ATTN ;Dear Friend

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? My name is ALHAJI SANUSI LAMIDO THE FORMER GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF AFRICA BENIN REP hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition. You may not understand why this mail came to you. But if you do not remember me, you might have receive an email from me in the past regarding a business proposal which we never concluded.

I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under cooperation of a new partner from Dominican Republic. Presently I'm in Dominican Republic for investment projects with my own share of the total sum meanwhile,I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my REV FATHER in Benin rep Africa, his name is REV FATHER JOHN WATSON

EMAIL:revphilipwatson200@gmail.com
ALTERNATIVE EMAIL : revjohn20044@yahoo.fr
TELEPHONE :TELEPHONE :+22998797889 or +2347030614433

Ask him to send you the total cash check of $1.2 million dollars which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempt to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your collective efforts at that time so feel free and get in touch with my Rev Father  john and instruct him where to send the amount to you. Do it fast before the CASH CHECK EXPIRED.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here in Dominican Republic because of the investment projects which I and the new partner are having at hand without confrontations,Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that CASH CHECK, so feel free to get in touch with REV JOHN WATSON my secretary he will send the CHECK to you without any delay

ALHAJI SANUSI LAMIDO
THE FORMER GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF AFRICA BENIN REP

[Yorkie]

For all you Frenchspeakers, here is today's scam.      Any takers?     L0L


Mes sincères salutations et mes excuses à votre égard. Je voudrais m'excuser de mon intrusion dans votre vie privée. Je me nomme Mme Patricia Konan , Cadre au Département de la Comptabilité à Ecobank Côte d'Ivoire. Un compte a été ouvert au sein de notre banque en 2005 et depuis 2011, aucune opération ne s'est effectuée. Ce compte présente à ce jour dans nos livres, un compte créditeur de Huit Millions Cinq Cent Mille €uros ( 8.500.000 €). Après avoir consulté tous les dossiers relatifs à ce compte, je me suis rendue compte que je pouvais disposer aisément de cet argent si je réussissais à le virer sur un compte à l'extérieur donc je suis à la recherche d'un partenaire serieux et honnête.
Le possesseur de ce compte feu Mike Patrick, un expatrié de Petrol-Technical Support Services Inc, décédé suite à un accident de la circulation. Personne ne sait à ce jour l'existence de ce compte.
J'aimerais que vous m'aidiez à transférer cet argent pour investir dans votre domaine. Après le transfert je vous offre 50% pour votre aide. Soyez sûr que c'est une véritable opportunité que je vous offre.
Je reste dans l'attente de votre réponse rapide que j'espère favorable.

Fraternellement
Mme Patricia Konan

[Michael]

 of course it would help if you could read french as well as speaking it

[white rabbit]

Not good French anyway 

[Yorkie]

You always have to be careful and remember that something that seems too good to be true, probably isn't!     

[Ian]

List of bogus HMRC email addresses. If you ever get an email with one of these on, forward it to HMRC fraud department at phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk:

• reve.alert@hmrc.gov.uk
• services@hmrc.co.uk
• noreply@hmrevenue.com
• service@hmrc.gov.uk
• service.refund@hmrc.gov
• secure@hmrc.co.uk
• hmrc@gov.uk
• taxes@hmrc.co.uk
• taxrefund-notice@hmrc.gov.uk • taxrefund@hmrc.gov.uk
• refund-help@hmrc.gov.uk
• service@online.com
• email@hmrc.gov.uk
• refund.alert@hmrc.gov.uk
• refunds@hmrc.gov.uk
• srvcs@hmrc.gov.uk
• alertsonline@hmrc.co.uk
• info@hmrc.gov.uk
• rebate@hmrc.gov.uk

[Ian]

If you're a Talk Talk customer, Security specialists are warning that you should think very carefully if you receive any emails apparently from Talk Talk asking you to take any action whatsoever. The attack currently being mounted against the company seems to have been instigated in order to steal information.

[Fester]

It seems that the hackers may have taken all the personal info, including bank details too ! 

[Hugo]

I was a Talk Talk customer until I terminated my contract with them this month because of their charges for phone calls but I've had an unusually large increase in bogus e-mails recently.
I put them all into junk mail and then delete them, but the bank details info is another matter and is serious

[Ian]

Providing you're banking with a company that uses a discrete keypad, you should be fine, but they can use your details to sign you up to things - that's the real problem. A decent company shouldn't accept any orders without the correct address, but some are more eager to get their hands on your hard earned.

[Hugo]

On TV today it said that Talk Talk will  not be phoning their customers today but then  I received a phone call today from a heavily accented Asian man saying that he was from Talk Talk and wanted to talk about my reuter.
I just told him to put it in writing and hung up and promptly put a call blocker on the number he was phoning from
The trouble is that they seen to be generating different phone numbers and the call blocker doesn't stop the overseas numbers from coming through.