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Covid payment email scam?

  • 23-04-2020 6:26pm
    #1
    jamesbil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭


    So a few weeks ago (April 9) I received an email claiming to be from Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection saying that applications were being reviewed and to reply by April 15 with loads of info including PPSN.

    It was not very well formatted or laid out so I googled to see if there was a scam, turns out there was a few. Next day news reported that the Department had mistakenly sent out thousands of emails.
    I figured it must have been a draft copy sent by mistake.

    Today I got an email from Michele Moylan @ welfare.ie address stating that as I had not replied my payment will be stopped.
    The email has on official header but has all the blurb at the bottom that the other did not.

    Question is, is this legit or a fake?


Comments

  • #2
    ttsnar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭ttsnar


    It is legit, that is the control area.


  • #3
    jamesbil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭jamesbil


    Darn,

    That first email looked like a kid put it together, none of the usual stuff in the footer too, thats why I didn't have any confidence in it.


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