An
Email with the Subject "Important HM Revenue and Customs Alert" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:34:47 -0700
and has been classified as a Lotto/Lottery Scam Email.
The sender shows as "HMRC Tax Refund Services" <info@inf.co.uk>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in
this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be
added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate investigating or law enforcement agencies on request.
EEEEEstdClass Object
(
[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => scamdex@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:34:47 -0700
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from lugano5.hostireland.com ([5.149.175.225]:35047 helo=lugano.hostireland.com)by bigcat.newsblaze.com with esmtp (Exim 4.87)(envelope-from )id 1b9wYA-00084X-Qofor scamdex@scamdex.com; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:34:47 -0700
[1] => from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])by lugano.hostireland.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184DA14914B;Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:14:33 +0100 (IST)
[2] => from lugano.hostireland.com ([193.120.164.180])by localhost (lugano.hostireland.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)with ESMTP id 0vSklOcKyW-Q; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:14:32 +0100 (IST)
[3] => from [185.24.233.151] (bono.hostireland.com [91.216.241.52])by lugano.hostireland.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17081149463;Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:14:32 +0100 (IST)
)
[x-virus-scanned:] => amavisd-new at lugano.hostireland.com
[content-type:] => multipart/alternative; boundary="===============0948809833=="
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[subject:] => Important HM Revenue and Customs Alert
[to:] => Recipients
[from:] => "HMRC Tax Refund Services"
[date:] => Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:14:31 +0100
[reply-to:] => thepainest@hotmail.com
[message-id:] => <20160606151433.184DA14914B@lugano.hostireland.com>
)
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
