It amuses me more than anything to see phishing attempts hit my inbox though it does worry me that I will one day have this uncontrollable urge to click on the link provided.
Today’s, looking as if it had come in from Her Majesty’s Customs and Revenue, was mildly believable. It is after all coming up to that time of year where we have to think about tax returns.
The message read:
Taxpayer ID: trefd-00000159883557UK
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)
Please review your tax statement on HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) website (click on the link below):
We caught this spam but it did attempt to get delivered to many Timico employees. For the safety of the reader I haven’t reproduced the link but I’d be mildly interested in a straw poll to see how many people got the email. And how many actually responded to it!
That’s not my taxpayer ID by the way 🙂