Another new”Amazon” scam.
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The times these become a serious problem, is when you have just ordered something from them.
You spend £30, then get an email regarding an order of £300 - obviously you dont want you be charged incorrectly, and you thinm its a mistake !!
Be aware - and always check on the sender email address !!!!
You spend £30, then get an email regarding an order of £300 - obviously you dont want you be charged incorrectly, and you thinm its a mistake !!
Be aware - and always check on the sender email address !!!!
Simplest thing is to treat ANY email or phone call asking you for money as a scam until YOU prove otherwise. Treating everything as suspicious is the only way these days.
Invest time in finding a better email system that looks at and flags/discards stuff like this before you even see it. Yes, that could involve moving away from that free email account you’ve had forever, or moving to a secure email client for checking your mail. Either of these things can be done without any cost, or you can of course of pay for something.
I know that’s easy for me to say as a 30+ year IT industry veteran, but you don’t have to see these emails.
Invest time in finding a better email system that looks at and flags/discards stuff like this before you even see it. Yes, that could involve moving away from that free email account you’ve had forever, or moving to a secure email client for checking your mail. Either of these things can be done without any cost, or you can of course of pay for something.
I know that’s easy for me to say as a 30+ year IT industry veteran, but you don’t have to see these emails.
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Or just don't buy stuff from the tax-dodging tw@s, then you're guaranteed to know which emails are scams.
I would say that the thunderbird mail program is very good at filtering out spams and scams.
But don't trust your mail filter anyway.
Most email scams depend on recipient (a) believing the email and (b) clicking a link in the email to be taken to a fraudulent website.
Get out of the habit of clicking links or buttons in emails. Any emails.
Even if you're sure the email is legit don't follow links in the mail. Just close the email. Open a separate browser window and manually navigate to the company's website to check your account. Simples.
I know the media likes to pick on big companies. But 1000's of UK companies, large and small, are at it.
In the uk ANY company can open a subsidiary in luxemberg or Ireland where corporation tax is low and have all profits fed into that foreign subsidiary so tax is paid there instead of in the UK.
The small company doodah works like this.
UK company creates a subsidiary company in luxemburg or Ireland and passes ownership of something (anything such as a logo or product design, drawing or some other worthless intellectual property) to that foreign company.
Foreign company doesn't actually do any work. Probably doesn't have any staff.
Near the end of the UK company's financial year they look in their accounts to see what their taxable profit is going to be.
Foreign company then, coincidentally, sends an invoice for "Use of Intellectual Property" to the UK company that, basically, wipes out UK company's profit.
UK company has no profit so doesn't pay uk tax. The foreign company pays tax at that country's (lower) rate.
The way to combat above wheeze would be to lower UK corporation tax so more uk companies would be more willing to pay their tax in the uk. But saying that would lose votes. Voters really like the sound of it when labour say they'll raise tax on business. It gets workers' votes but doesn't actually raise any tax.
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I consider myself carefull in the way I treat emails , but last year I got an email that appeared to be from a private account , explaining he was working from home (1st Lockdown) and worked for company I had never heard from. He went on to say I had won £500 in a draw by Barclaycard for replying to a questionary they had sent me, regarding cards I used,places I ordered goods from (tick from a list) ect
Would I please reply to confirm it was me that had submitted the reply.
I was very concerned so found the company on line , contacted but got no reply
Then received a phone call from the person,asking me to confirm myself , then said they would be touch in a couple of weeks. ( I made a note of his number)
I then contact Barclaycard , who where no help so I decided to just forget the matter.
Three weeks later had another email saying a £500 Amazon voucher was on its way.
1 minute later I had an email from Amazon which was a reference number to my gift card.
Used another computer to go to my Amazon account , entered the card details
I really enjoyed spending that £500
BUT I HAD DECIDED IF I GOT ANY EMAILS ASKING ME TO OPEN ANYTHING I WOULD JUST BIN IT,UNOPENED
Would I please reply to confirm it was me that had submitted the reply.
I was very concerned so found the company on line , contacted but got no reply
Then received a phone call from the person,asking me to confirm myself , then said they would be touch in a couple of weeks. ( I made a note of his number)
I then contact Barclaycard , who where no help so I decided to just forget the matter.
Three weeks later had another email saying a £500 Amazon voucher was on its way.
1 minute later I had an email from Amazon which was a reference number to my gift card.
Used another computer to go to my Amazon account , entered the card details
I really enjoyed spending that £500
BUT I HAD DECIDED IF I GOT ANY EMAILS ASKING ME TO OPEN ANYTHING I WOULD JUST BIN IT,UNOPENED