Email Scam

BGozIE

Not sure if this is the right area to post so apologies in advance if it is not.

Got this sent to me in an email today...(attached image is just a snippet of the mail)

Didn't go to my junk mail so I opened it (hotmails junk filter is ****? IDK?) and because I have recently been o Australia.

The email will have Dear (your name) - I blanked mine out.

It looks fine but the skeptic in me wasn't so sure so I did a quick search for "ato email scam" found the below link which has all of the info...

http://www.ato.gov.au/onlineservices/content.aspx?doc=/content/62347.htm&page=9&H9

Just so people are aware as this is definitely one of the better email scams I've seen.

PS the link explains that the "tax refund form" asks for all kinds of bank details, so if the email itself doesn't arouse your suspicion the form should.

Hope this helps someone.

Hardonraging

People still use hotmail ?

BillyMitchel

Hardonraging wrote: »

People still use hotmail ?

Since 2001

BGozIE

Hardonraging wrote: »

People still use hotmail ?

Hey its hard to get just your name in an email these days without other ****e added in

red sean

Quote from the piece attached:

Important note about your online refund:
For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time. Deliberate wrong inputs are
criminally pursued and persecuted.

Ya gotta love them for their incredible command of the English language in the "Australian Govt."

syklops

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Since 2001

Thats around the time I stopped using it.

GLaDOS

Hotmail is great for signing up for ****e that'll spam you

BGozIE

Jesus I need to stop using hotmail by the sounds of things. I use gmail too, don't see the big diff

Oink

The big difference for IS the spam.
I have 1 gmail, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail account. Hotmail is effin riddled. the other ones are fine.

kjl

Oink wrote: »

The big difference for IS the spam.
I have 1 gmail, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail account. Hotmail is effin riddled. the other ones are fine.

idk, I have jamesx in one of these others you mentioned. I get maybe 6 spam emails a day.

ballsymchugh

Oink wrote: »

The big difference for IS the spam.
I have 1 gmail, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail account. Hotmail is effin riddled. the other ones are fine.

i logged into hotmail for the first time in ages recently. it's actually very easy to tidy up now. still won't go back to using it all the time though.

phasers

I cant get a gmail address for my name without adding a load of numbers after it, i have to make do with my live.ie email address

BGozIE

phasers wrote: »

I cant get a gmail address for my name without adding a load of numbers after it, i have to make do with my live.ie email address

Pretty much where I'm coming from

murphym7

Oink wrote: »

The big difference for IS the spam.
I have 1 gmail, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail account. Hotmail is effin riddled. the other ones are fine.

It really is, I closed down mine a couple of years ago when my account strted sending emails from me to all my contacts.

Plazaman

Hehe, no tax office will ever offer to pay you back no matter where they are in the world unless you apply for a review of taxes or a dept wide problem comes to light. Still "persecuted" probably is a more apt word to use when it comes to Revenue.

PS Hotmail has gone all funky now and changed itself to Outlook. Much easier to use, more user friendly and much better than Gmail IMHO.

the groutch

yahoo mail FTW!

Oink

BGozIE wrote: »

Pretty much where I'm coming from

Yeah I can understand that. I wanted to find the most obvious address possible as well, but had to work around the issue.

vex

I still have an oceanfree email account :cool:

its 40 % you have a small penis emails and 40% some king in Nigeria wants to give millions of dolla's . I wonder if I could use the Nigerian dolla's to get a bigger penis ????

minotour

BGozIE wrote: »

Not sure if this is the right area to post so apologies in advance if it is not.

Got this sent to me in an email today...(attached image is just a snippet of the mail)

Didn't go to my junk mail so I opened it (hotmails junk filter is ****? IDK?) and because I have recently been o Australia.

The email will have Dear (your name) - I blanked mine out.

It looks fine but the skeptic in me wasn't so sure so I did a quick search for "ato email scam" found the below link which has all of the info...

http://www.ato.gov.au/onlineservices/content.aspx?doc=/content/62347.htm&page=9&H9

Just so people are aware as this is definitely one of the better email scams I've seen.

PS the link explains that the "tax refund form" asks for all kinds of bank details, so if the email itself doesn't arouse your suspicion the form should.

Hope this helps someone.

Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and persecuted no less.

antodeco

kjl wrote: »

I have jamesx

I read that as Jam Sex