A Scam 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.
The sender was
"HMRC Tax Refund Services" <info@inf.co.uk>,
although it may have been spoofed.
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 agencies.
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
We would like to notify you that you still have an outstanding tax refund of £198.54 from overpaid tax from year 2015/2016, despite our previous letters regarding your refund we are yet to receive your claim. Requests for refunds are time limited please use the link below to complete your claim online also note the following:
You have until the 30th of June 2016 to make your claim
Reference No: 2014/956324/B
We can only process a refund for the tax year we have detailed above
