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New Scam - D (27th May 2015 - 17:08:54) Have just received an email message and "statement" supposedly from BT seeking payment to an account in Omagh. Their story is that they are now responsible for BT accounts. As I do not have any dealings with BT it is obviously yet another scam. Has anyone else received this message?

Re: New Scam - S (27th May 2015 - 18:22:06) Hi D, I don't think email spam works on a geographic basis so it's unlikely anyone on this forum received exactly the same email but it does sound like a spam. I often get similar, sometimes convincing emails supposedly from Lloyds Bank, Paypal or HMRC informing me of my tax rebate, but you can often check by looking at the full email address that has sent the mail (not the 'name' they have showing next to it) - usually it's very obvious that it isn't official. The tax rebate ones are often very convincing, but the tax office is unlikely to send you an email of this sort, and certainly would not ask you to fill in an online form in order to get your money, as these emails often do.

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