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Quick tip - if anyone has ever tried to create a Gov.uk log in they will know that it is a LOT, LOT, LOT, LOT harder and more involved than just clicking on a link.
Did it for me and Mrs Pinner and took about 15 minutes for each of us and some of the questions are very tricky.
You also need your passport amongst many other details.
Sooooo if it ain't very very very complicated it ain't the HMRC!
A refund of £81. Not a great amount, but far better than owing them. And it's already in my bank account.
I was due a small refund as well. Filled out a paper form, but then got a genuine email (that tells you to log out of email (NO link provided to HMRC either) and log back in to HMRC separately btw) confirming I was due a refund.
Did the set up account thing (see above) and got refund straight into my account in a few days - very impressed.
Quick tip - if anyone has ever tried to create a Gov.uk log in they will know that it is a LOT, LOT, LOT, LOT harder and more involved than just clicking on a link.
Did it for me and Mrs Pinner and took about 15 minutes for each of us and some of the questions are very tricky.
You also need your passport amongst many other details.
Sooooo if it ain't very very very complicated it ain't the HMRC!
Deliberately difficult to make it as difficult as possible for someone to grab your refund. I worked at HMRC a few years ago and the team building their technology are some of the best in the Civil Service.
Deliberately difficult to make it as difficult as possible for someone to grab your refund. I worked at HMRC a few years ago and the team building their technology are some of the best in the Civil Service.
I wasn't complaining, just pointing out they will NEVER ask you to 'just click on this link'
Now this is a proper scam! I've never heard of it until today. Check put the first footage after 8 million dollars
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That sort of thing looks like something someone started with a grand ambition that they simply couldn't deliver and got in way too deep over their heads for, and shoved their head in the sand when it was obvious it was all going to pot long before it finally happened.
There's some good podcast series out there about scams or Silicon Valley awfulness - The Fake Heiress on BBC Sounds, The Dropout on Spotify, and The Missing CryptoQueen, also on BBC Sounds.
That sort of thing looks like something someone started with a grand ambition that they simply couldn't deliver and got in way too deep over their heads for, and shoved their head in the sand when it was obvious it was all going to pot long before it finally happened.
There's some good podcast series out there about scams or Silicon Valley awfulness - The Fake Heiress on BBC Sounds, The Dropout on Spotify, and The Missing CryptoQueen, also on BBC Sounds.
After reading the comments section I've been reading about a few. I'll try listening to the pods thanks.
Star Citizen has been released but after 350Million It doesn't seem that it was worth it we'll see.
4 people paid £10000 to be a 'King or Queen' in the game lol just wtf.
In World of Warships I bought a Giulio Cesare (not our former keeper) for £5 on sale a few years ago. At tier V I'm a king with it.
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Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent
I have numerous calls saying my NI number has been corrupted and I’m going to prison if I don’t respond .
I've had this twice. It's a recorded message from a mobile number so not very believable. I've just blocked the number which may help for a while - until they start with a different number.
Well you'll all be pleased to hear that me and Lordes are still going strong. Every time I send her another £50,000 she sends me back an erotic picture which just proves how much she loves me. Apparently the house she is building for us will be finished in the next year and will probably only cost me another £150,000 - Bargain She sends me pictures of the house too and her brother is the builder so no risk of being conned as it's family !
I worked for a manager who got a cold call but they wouldn't accept that he wasn't interested. So he left the phone on his desk and walked away to do something productive:
I do like the idea of keeping these people talking, if you can be bothered. While you are holding them up, they can't bother others.
The final one is I'm so glad you called I'm selling a 2015 Peugeot 208, with 75K miles, 10 months MOT and 6 months tax. Usual response will be "what?" Then tell them, you try selling me something I don't want so i'll do the same to you
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They do, which is why they continue to happen. A lot of people are probably not able to process the fact they are scams (elderly, maybe some other conditions etc) and are usually the ones caught out. A vile practice.
Anyone of sound mind who does is just a greedy fkker and deserves what they get.
We all mock the 'obvious' ones on here but Met Police told me recently via email that people lost nearly £700,000 in ONE month in ONE Borough - Hillingdon - through on line/phone scams recently & those figures are pretty much the same every month - multiply that across the country and its a staggering amount of money and why they will never go away.
HMRC have asked my partner to pay 1/3 of next year's potential tax bill (obviously don't know how much she has to pay yet as it will depend on figures that aren't complete) on account, sounds like a scam to me.
HMRC have asked my partner to pay 1/3 of next year's potential tax bill (obviously don't know how much she has to pay yet as it will depend on figures that aren't complete) on account, sounds like a scam to me.
Yep!
Mentioned before but best way is to set up an on line HMRC account, any genuine bills/rebates will be there and no where else!
Always get them about my extended car warranty. They ask, what is the make of your vehicle, A Rolls Royce, I reply, we don’t do those, click.
I do mess with these callers sometimes. Once had someone keep telling me god was with me, with me telling them they were doing the devils work. It went back and forth quite a while.
Also when I here a real voice I say you’re going to hang up on me and you called me, that seems rude. Click.
Literally we've just watched this in the office and are crying laughing.
Happy Monday.
I find they make a long car journey so much better , esp the ambulance chasers asking if you had an accident , always use some dinosaur coming out of the woods and destroying my bugatti MPV as what car i was driving , think my best is 25 mins before they hang up, must do better next time
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