Re: OT: phishing issue

wasted wrote:

I just received an email, purportedly from the IRS

The U.S. IRS never sends unsolicited email to random people. There's a
clue!

Which is great since the IRS is American and I live and work in the
UK. Kinda makes me suspect that maybe, perhaps, just possibly this is
a phoney!!!

However, what I'm curious about is that the link is (and here I'm reversing
the word login to prevent anyone using it)
https://online.hmrc.gov.uk/nigol?GAREASONCODE=-2&GARESOURCEID=Common&GAURI

Did you read the email in HTML format? Look at the source (or via Plain
Text) and see what the real link is. (Reason enough to *not* read email
in HTML mode.)

Out of curiosity does anyone know how this one works?

As you surmise. It's a socially-engineered phishing attempt to get you
to reveal personal information -- possibly so the scammer can drain your
bank account.

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows
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