Has someone offered you a huge sum of money or a valuable consignment? It's a 419 or advance fee fraud - find out how they work, and what to do to be safe.
by MattNW Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:00 am
This isn't exactly the kind of scams usually found here at SW but I thought I'd post this to make it easier for any potential victims to find.

A Secure Way to Receive Your Tax Return

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $620.50.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 days in order to
process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here


Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time.
Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated.


Regards,
Internal Revenue Service


The link leads to a website that looks like a legit IRS site but it's really a fake. I've never heard of the IRS contacting anyone by email so beware of all emails supposedly from the IRS.
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by justjay Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:17 pm
That's a 'phishing" email

Best thing to do is forward them to [email protected]

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