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FRAUDULENT EMAILS ARE being sent to taxpayers in an attempt to get personal information according to the Revenue Commissioners.
The emails are pretending to be in connection with a tax refund and are headed, “Notice of Tax Return. Client No.”
Taxpayers are being advised that these emails are not from revenue and are an example of a phishing scam.
Phishing scams involve a bogus emails being sent to people in order to trick them into revealing personal or financial information.
The Revenue Commissioners say that they never send emails requesting personal information from customers and anyone who is actually awaiting a tax refund should contact their local Revenue Office to check its status.
Anyone who has received an email purporting to be from Revenue and suspects it to be fraudulent or a scam should simply delete it they say.
If a person has already responded to the fraudulent emails and provided personal information they are being advised to contact their bank or credit card company immediately.
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I’ll reply to that straight after I get back to this Nigerian Prince who seems to be in a spot of bother
Send him cash, never mind bank details and all that jazz
I got a text message advising I’d won ’6.000.00 gbp’
Not sure what it is but it’s clearly my lucky day
I reply too after I get married to beautiful scamming ghana girl
I got one of these emails. Was so funny because it asked me to make the return to her Majesty’s Revenue ha. They fixed it and then put the Irish one on it. Golden rule on the internet – never ever ever give your details of your bank etc to anyone. NEVER.
Especially not to the revenue :::!
Revenue are snapping that some scammers will get there ahead of them.
Tsb and aib looking to update your acc is another scam ,people should be aware of,I got emails from both of them,I don’t have an acc with aib.
I keep getting a text message asking me to log onto my account also or my account will be closed in 24hrs.
Bank of Ireland too
Scammers are a fcuking pain in the hole, try placing an ad on DAFT, Carzone, Adverts.ie etc etc and watch the parasites moving in.
Old news. Have being getting those emails for months.
Number of people ever convicted of Phishing =0. Cost to the perpetrator = almost 0. All profit, no risk. Even if they nab one person stupid enough to respond its worth doing, although the ones I’ve received are from Her Majesties Inland Revenue and are full of misspellings. There’s an argument that service providers should begin to charge a spam fee prior to transmitting large numbers of emails from a single address. e.g .01c for every email sent over 500. Suddenly it would get very expensive to try this on and you’d have a source for the Phishers.
I had a conversation with a garda earlier this year, who was adamant that phishing was “not illegal” unless you actually handed over money. Same for phoning someone and trying to get them to do a bank transfer over the phone (which is what I was reporting). The conversation did not end well. I went to a different Garda station, who took a slightly saner view. The file was sent to “Harcourt Street”, which appears to be a euphemism for /dev/null – I have heard absolutely nothing since.
I know it’s difficult to catch these people, but it’s absolutely impossible if you don’t even try.
Where do these people get your email? I’ve been getting loads from ‘FedEx’ telling me they have parcels for me
There was someone who got an email saying they won 2,000,000 on the lottery but to release there win they had to pay the taxes on it first ….and they sent cash…….are people that dumb……they were american by the way…..no offence..
I have received several copies of that scam mail, each one showing a slightly different subject line, and including different tax numbers! Oddly enough I was not surprised to see them sitting in my spam folder awaiting deletion.
If I ever become rich, the first thing I’m going to do is to set up a lottery in Nigeria and make it so that the lottery will enter people without their knowledge. Imagine their lovely surprise when they receive the email that they’ve become winners overnight. They have to pay the administration fees though.
If you find an idiot you are duty bound to exploit them
How is anyone stupid enough to fall for this s*it anymore? Almost deserved if they do. No sympathy.
My mother who isn’t very tech savvy was going replying to one of those 1 millionth viewer pop ups but luckily I was in the room. Some people especially older people just aren’t aware of the dangers.
Old news! I have been getting these since before Christmas!
The majority of people are gullible idiots and deserve to be ripped off.
There’s a gmail phishing scam doing the rounds, fairly convincing only for the Indian name in the URL.
Why is Nigeria being mentioned here repeatedly?
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