email from hm revenue and customs, is it legit?

manoz · 24 Sep 2009 at 13:34

Got this email from HMRC in my junk email

Dear Applicant:

Following an upgrade of our computer systems and review of our records we have investigated your payments and latest tax returns over the last seven years our calculations show you have made over payments of Ј178.25
Due to the high volume of refunds due you must complete the on line application, the telephone help line is unable to assist with this application. in oder we can process your refund you will need to complete the attatched application form your refund may take up to 6 weeks to process please make sure you complete the form correctly.
As we are upgrading our records we require the completed form showing your full current details by 26.09.2009

Please submit the form attached to your email to confirm the refund.

HM Revenue & Customs

The form asks for all sorts of information, like card numbers, mothers maiden name, address etc.

I'm not sure whether I've actually given my email address to them so don't know if this is legit. Also there is spelling mistakes lol. I take it this is less then kosher?

manoz · 24 Sep 2009 at 13:46

I haven't applied for anything, I guess it was the email senders address that threw me off. [email protected]. I already got back 300 quid this year, I thought they'd wanna give me more cos I'm still getting raped on taxes lol.

manoz · 24 Sep 2009 at 14:05

Duke said:
Go into the email header details to get the 'real' email address.

Aah, didn't know about that. I'll have to check that more often.

manoz · 24 Sep 2009 at 14:27

-BA- said:
I am astounded you even opened the attachment. Never ever open attachments unless you know for sure the sender is legit, ie: you are expecting email or you have subscribed to a mailing list.....omg.

I didn't open the attachment, I'm not that dumb

The info fields were all below the above email(didn't include them in the quote)