{"id":9760,"date":"2018-11-17T01:32:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T01:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/university-students-hit-by-wave-of-fake-tax-refund-emails\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T20:04:13","slug":"university-students-hit-by-wave-of-fake-tax-refund-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/university-students-hit-by-wave-of-fake-tax-refund-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"University Students Targeted With Fake HMRC E-Mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest reported phishing scam, it appears\u00a0that Students at various\u00a0Universities including Aberdeen, Cambridge &amp; Queen&#8217;s Belfast are being sent fake HMRC messages\u00a0re supposed Tax Refunds. They are using Academic e-mail addresses (ending .ac.uk) in an attempt to make them appear more credible and in common with these types of e-mail scam if the unsuspecting recipient clicks on the links and enters their details they can have their bank accounts emptied or their personal details used for identity theft. One would hope that people at University would be able to spot these, however, it is likely that some may fall victim and it is not clear if the new banking regulations will protect them.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these phishing\u00a0e-mails are easy to spot often containing poor grammar and language\u00a0but in any event, Financial Institutions and\u00a0Government bodies will not send out unencrypted e-mails asking for personal information and if you ever receive any then either delete them or better still if they are purporting to be from HMRC send them to the\u00a0<abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>\u00a0phishing team at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk\">phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have lost money then contact <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/\">Action Fraud<\/a><\/span>, however, the chances of recovering it are slim so please\u00a0be vigilant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest reported phishing scam, it appears\u00a0that Students at various\u00a0Universities including Aberdeen, Cambridge &amp; Queen&#8217;s Belfast are being sent fake HMRC messages\u00a0re supposed Tax Refunds. They are using Academic e-mail addresses (ending .ac.uk) in an attempt to make them appear more credible and in common with these types of e-mail scam if the unsuspecting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-phishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9764,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}