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I have had several scam Income Tax emails recently, most seem to be sent via a Canadian domain - including bonestructure.ca and controlleddemolition.ca A genuine email from the UK tax office would be sent from tax.s##e.gov.uk and most certainly not a Canadian domain.

There was also a HTML part to the message which had a link to the Government Gateway website which actually linked to visionsprings{.} com and not gov.uk and it was also addressed to an email address, not to me by name. All...

Had a couple of these recently, one offering me a Income Tax Refund, but the grammar of the message let it down, I won't say what the errors were as I don't want to help the scammers improve their scams. The second which was sent from a really long email address, possible to obsure the fact that it was NOT sent from gov.uk started off with HM-AccessServer-CustomerTaxRefund-UserInfo8882alana followed by a Canadian domain - jumponline.ca.

This second one was also in Thai or some other...

Action Fraud has received more than 5,000 reports about fake emails and texts purporting to be from TV Licensing. The messages contain links to genuine-looking websites that are designed to steal personal and financial information.

Always question unsolicited requests for your personal or financial information in case it’s a scam. Never automatically click on a link in an unexpected email or text.

For more information about how to stay safe online, visit cyberaware.gov.uk

Action Fraud has experienced an increase in the reporting of malicious calls, voicemails, text messages or emails to members of the public purporting to be from HMRC.

The fraudsters state that as a result of their non-payment of tax or other duty, the victim is liable to prosecution or other legal proceedings such as repossession of belongings to settle the balance but can avoid this by arranging for payment to be made immediately by method such as bank transfer or by iTunes gift...

The WhatsApp Gold hoax first circulated in 2016, and is once again being shared on WhatsApp. Users should not fall for the hoax message telling them to download this "premium" upgrade! It downloads a virus instead which alledgedly damages your smartphone/device beyond repair, I do not know how true this is however.

If you receive such a message, do not click to sign up for the promised upgrade. Instead, delete the message as soon as it is received. Remember that there’s only one version of...

Here we go again, after a brief period of quiet on the infected spam emails, two have arrived today, the second is alledgedly from ALLSCAFF GB and is an invoice for £370 in this case. Again, I know this is fake as I've never heard of a firm called ALLSCAFF nor have I bought anything from them. Again, the fact that this is a fake is shown by the fact the email from which it is sent is pretty random and is <scott.mitchell {at} brownbrotherscny. >and who Brown Brothers are is unknown...

Here we go again, after a brief period of quiet on the infected spam emails, two have arrived today, the first is alledgedly from Indeed, an online job site, requesting payment for a Best Network Recruitment invoice of £269.03. All looks okay, BUT I've never used indeed and the sender is not even spoofed as indeed, but in fact appears to come from <chiara.pasqualini  {at} bobnolley. > As for who bob nolley is and why he is allowing people to send infected emails I don't know...

Just  received a lovely email from the US Secretary of the Treasury advising me that I am the beneficiary of some $3,550,000.00. All I have to do is confirm my email, Full Name, Residential Address, Phone number and Occupation.

Rather than simply reply to the treasury.com address, I should direct my reply to him at a qq.com which is a Chinese chat site email.

At least they are not after my bank details (YET), though they would need these in due course to transfer the money... OUT of...

The latest fake and infected email to drop into my inbox is alledgedly from Passcomm Ltd, whom I have never heard off I must admit, which goes to show that this invoice request for payment is a scam.

The sender is (possibly spoofed as) paytonto.yau {at} inscotlandnow{.}co{.}uk and requests that I pay some sort of fake invoice. Although I cannot find an actual link to click, there is a lot of HTML code using hidden tags so at the very least I have to assume that if I were to view this email...

A friend received a very convincing phone call this afternoon, purported to be from Domestic & General, about his Washing Machine.

He was told that "Your insurance is due for renewal" (it is) "we can now offer you a month free and a reduction in monthly payments" so far so good details seem correct

Then "We just need to take some details off you, we need your bank sort code" bell starts to ring a little, he did give the sort code, then they asked " what is your account number?" bell...