Scam

The daftest one I got was a phone call from 'The Ministry of Justice' who would give me a refund on over paid bank charges.

I never bother claiming my pending "Tax Refund" from HMRC as I am rather flush with winning the Nigerian national lottery most weeks. Lucky old me. I also have a "Dear relative" residing in Andorra apparently, sadly the said lady is soon not to be with us for much longer, yet her generosity abounds and in exchange for my banking details I will inherit a sizeable amount of monies. In the words of my Andorran benefactor "I am truly blessed".

I had a tax refund email from hm inspector of taxes and reserve....looked official apart from that silly mistake which Gave the game away. Scams, we must always be on on our toes.

yes, I have had several of these and I have recently had one from Apple warning me my apple itunes account had been compromised. If I had had an apple itunes account I would have found it very convincing. As I don't, I didn't, but I did read it carefully several times.

Yes I had one of those scam emails from HMRC a couple of months ago. I've also had a lot recently purporting to come from Paypal, which I also reported straight away, then completely deleted from my email account. Never, ever, reply to something like this.

We recently were sent an email from our local council saying we were owed overpaid Council Tax. This was in fact true, they wanted our bank detail to pay us. Just above the request was a statement ' we will never ask for your bank details in an email'.

We telephoned them to point out the error of their ways and are awaiting a cheque by post!

Thanks for the warning. I would never give so much detailed info via email off the cuff as yours appears to have been sent.