Tax refund email scam

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I have just received an email from a friend who has had an email purporting to be from HMRC, offering a tax refund and giving you your supposed tax file number, that only lasts for 24 hrs, and a link to follow.

This is a scam - you are likely to be asked for bank details into which the refund will be paid, do not be taken in by it.

here is a link to the HMRC website about the matter.

Sorry if this has been done before, I did do a search to check and nothing came up.

They all go in my SPAM folder directly if you use GOOGLEMAIL

I don't use googlemail - but that's a useful tip, RTKanga, thanks.

I got one as well......very convincing but luckily didnt fall for it