{"id":1769,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1769"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"HMRC-'You-are-Eligible-to-Receive-a-Tax-Refund'-Phishing-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"HMRC &#8216;You are Eligible to Receive a Tax Refund&#8217; Phishing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmail purporting to be from the UK&#8217;s \u00a0HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) claims that you are eligible to receive a tax refund. It \u00a0states \u00a0that, to receive your refund, you need to click a link to create \u00a0a government Gateway Account.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brief Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe email is not from HMRC and the claim that you can click a link to get a tax refund is untrue.  \u00a0The email is a phishing scam designed to steal your personal and financial information.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Subject: Annual tax return !<\/strong>Dear taxpayer : [Email Address Removed]<\/p>\n<p>We are sending this email to announce that after the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity , we have determinated that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 230.24 GBP. In order to receive your tax return online , you need to create a government gateway account.<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-1590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1590\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hmrc-you-are-eligible-to-receive-a-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,775\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2-300x291.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1590\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2.jpg\" alt=\"HMRC tax refund phishing scam email\" width=\"800\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-2-206x200.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to this email, the UK&#8217;s HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) has &#8216;determinated&#8217; that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of  \u00a3230.24. The email includes a summary table about the supposed refund.  \u00a0It \u00a0claims that you must create a &#8216;government gateway account&#8217; in order to receive the promised refund online.<\/p>\n<p>However, the email is not from \u00a0HMRC and the refund claim is untrue. If you click \u00a0the link in the email, you will be taken to a fraudulent webpage designed to look like the genuine HMRC webpage. A form on the fake page asks you to supply personal information about yourself as a means of creating your Tax Gateway account:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-1591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1591\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hmrc-you-are-eligible-to-receive-a-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,575\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3-300x216.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1591\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3.jpg\" alt=\"HMRC phishing page\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-3-278x200.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After supplying the \u00a0requested information and clicking \u00a0&#8216;Next&#8217;, you will be taken to a second fake form that asks for your credit card number, bank account number, security code, and sort code:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-1593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1593\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hmrc-you-are-eligible-to-receive-a-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,492\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5-300x185.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1593\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5.jpg\" alt=\"HMRC phishing website\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-5-768x472.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, you will be taken to a third fake page that claims that your Gateway account has been created and will become active within 5 business days:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-1594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1594\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hmrc-you-are-eligible-to-receive-a-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,334\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6-300x125.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1594\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6.jpg\" alt=\"HMRC phishing scam page\" width=\"800\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hmrc-tax-refund-gateway-account-6-768x321.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of this process, you may thus belive that you have successfully created your Gateway account and that the promised refund will appear in your bank account within a few days.<\/p>\n<p>But, in reality, the criminals responsible for this scam campaign can now collect all of the information that you supplied and use \u00a0it to commit credit card fraud and identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>The HMRC website <a title=\"HMRC - Phishing and scams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/topic\/dealing-with-hmrc\/phishing-scams\">includes information<\/a> about dealing with such phishing scams.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, tax refund phishing scams like this one are very common and regularly target taxpayers, not only in the UK, but in a number of other countries as well.  \u00a0Be very wary of any email or text message that claims that you are eligible for a tax refund and should click a link or open an attached file to apply for the supposed refund.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: \u00a0October 3, 2016<br \/>\nFirst published: \u00a0April 14, 2016<br \/>\nBy Brett M. Christensen<br \/>\n<a class=\"foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/about.shtml\">About Hoax-Slayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">References<br \/>\n<a title=\"HM Revenue &amp; Customs Refund of Overpayments Phishing Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/hmrc-tax-overpayments-phishing-scam.shtml\">HM Revenue &amp; Customs Refund of Overpayments Phishing Scam<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"HM Revenue &amp; Customs Tax Refund Phishing Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/revenue-customs-scam.shtml\">HM Revenue &amp; Customs Tax Refund Phishing Scam<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"HMRC - Phishing and scams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/topic\/dealing-with-hmrc\/phishing-scams\">HMRC &#8211; Phishing and scams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hmrc-you-are-eligible-to-receive-a-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hmrc-you-are-eligible-to-receive-a-tax-refund-phishing-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Email purporting to be from the UK&#8217;s \u00a0HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) claims that you are eligible to receive a tax refund. It \u00a0states \u00a0that, to receive your refund, you need to click a link to create \u00a0a government Gateway Account. Brief Analysis: The email is not from HMRC and the claim that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}