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Old Spice
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I got this today.......
HM Revenue & Customs Confim Refund
This e-mail has been sent to you by HM Revenue & Customs to inform you that we must pay you back 478 GBP.
Please complete all the information to process your refund
Please allow 2 weeks for you money to be availabe in your account. (eg: address, phone)
Total refund amount: 478 GBP
To ensure that your service is not interrupted, we request you to confirm and update your information today by following the link below:
HM Revenue & Customs Confim Refund
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Do not reply to this e-mail.
Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
Member 717559
© HM Revenue & Customs 2011
-Either the Inland Revenue are using e-mails now,complete with spelling mistakes,or some silly Nigerian con man has been busy again.
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snowdrop
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i get lots of these emails from africa asking me use my account.i emailed one back once asked him to show good will and give me 2grand in cash up front never got back to me.
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funkychick
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I get them from tax office and africa and south america and a variety of banks including my own that are all tosh oh and another one telling me I have a parcel to collect
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Trigger
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And I get them offering to sell me a product which enlarges something - but I don’t recall what.
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funkychick
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Oh yeah I get them even though I ve got nothing to enlarge except my photos
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Trigger
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Aah - perhaps that's it - hadn't thought of photos. 
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snowdrop
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not had the parcel pick up email yet.i get my pay pall is cocked up and i dont have paypal i had hsbc email wanting upgrade my details then telling me i overdrawn expecting me put bank details in...they obvious but intelligent people are taken in with it.
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snowdrop
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oh i was not taken in cos i not clever
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JollyJapes
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What scares me - more than the amount of scam emails seeming to rise - is the level of people almost taken in by them. Our head office staff at work were 'very' close to revealing our company private Paypal information, thanks to gullible directors. They emailed me asking why the account had been frozen - I'm afraid I was rather curt in my email response! Scam emails are to be expected, but I also expect people in senior positions to be able to spot those same scams.
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snowdrop
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think i mention this one before,i get email that pertains to be from friend of mine first two sentenses ask me how i am then it goes on to sell me something.i have had over 100 of them come through at sametime.what ever it is go through her address book and sends them to all her contacts then through all of mine sending these emails on.poor girl had to close her address down and i have stopped using the one that i get these fake emails from.
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I keep getting UPS delivery notifications when i have not ordered from them
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Sunny
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I never read any of my Junk-Mail, just delete them daily, does anyone bother to read theirs ? did look at one from Jamie from Facebook today, ( I came out of it yesterday, ) Jamie is my g/son`s name and he is on facebook, and it said you are getting old and grumpy, you need to get laid. ( It wasnt from my g/son)
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I Love Lowestoft
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PaulBM
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I don't read any mail that gets moved to my Junk folder. I do glance at the sender address and move some out of the Junk folder if they have been wrongly assigned, which happens now and again.
Always check the wording of emails from friends with links in them, if they're out of character, DO NOT click on the accompanying link. In fact, to be 100% safe, never click on a link in an email.
Another sign of possible virus generated spam is a long CarbonCopy list, this usually means the email has been sent to the whole of the senders address book.
Take a look at http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/
I'd be interested to hear what you all make of it.
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morty1753
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My guess is that your credit card would be stolen as soon as you enter the details and click on the box
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"I" before "E" except after "C"..... That's weird
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Sunny
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absolutely morty, I dont like the look of that at all PaulBM it`s a no-no. 
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I Love Lowestoft
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JollyJapes
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Read the About page. It's a spoof site, meant to teach you NOT to enter your credit card details onto a site you don't know!
This was a test. You have failed it.
(Unless you didn't enter your info. In which case: good for you.)
Don't worry. Your credit card details were not transmitted when you hit the submit button. But don't trust this claim without question. Find a technically-inclined friend to verify it for you. After all, you've already been tricked once.
Unfortunately, not every site in the Internet is trustworthy. Sometimes people will set up websites that appear to be trustworthy, but are actually used to steal your sensitive information. This practice is called phishing. Had this website been set up by less reputable people, your credit card information would have been logged and used fraudulently.
Things you can do to protect yourself:
Only enter sensitive information on sites you trust. Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, etc.
Look at the address bar. Just because a website looks like Amazon.com, that doesn't mean it is Amazon.com. Make sure the address bar shows the domain name you expect. A common phishing trick is to have a domain like amazon.com.not.ru, which steals your credentials when you try to log in. The actual domain in this example is "not.ru," but people often only check to see if "amazon.com" is anywhere in the address bar.
E-mails from phishers are usually addressed to a generic user. At best they will have your e-mail address in them. Real e-mails from websites you use will contain more substantial information about you. For example, Paypal has a policy of always putting your Paypal username in correspondence.
If asked for your password by e-mail or phone, do not give it out. The only place you should enter your password is a login form.
Do not use a debit card for online commerce. In the United States, debit card fraud is much more harmful than credit card fraud. For credit cards, you have a longer period of time in which you can flag a purchase as fraudulent. Also, a credit card is billed to you, while a debit card purchase immediately takes money out of your checking account.
You can learn more at the Anti-Phishing Working Group's website. Note: ismycreditcardstolen.com is not in any way affiliated with the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
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funkychick
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PaulBM seemed to morph into JJ then funny bit like a ventriloquist act
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PaulBM
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Pleased to see you all seemed to pass the test.
The site was featured on the Security Now podcast, which is a great podcast for all things security and computers. It's very techie, but if that's your thing, then it's well worth subscribing to.
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malcolm
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My anti virrus would not allow me to access the link Paul. I have chosen not to over ride it as i think i get the idea.
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Forever Yellow
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JollyJapes
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To test it out I typed all dummy info, not a bad idea for a site.
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Sunny
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Sounds good all round then, well done!
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