just got this in my email junk box

Automated Tax Refund Notification‏
From:  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) (refundsdept@hmrc.gov.uk) 
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Sent: 19 August 2009 16:04:36
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Tax Refund Notification


After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive tax refund of 488.50 GBP.

You are require to submit the tax refund request using the tax refund reference below and allow up 6-9 working days in order to process it



https://online.hmrc.gov.uk/refund?GAREASONCODE=- 1&GARESOURCEID=Common



Note : A refund can be delayed for different reasons, for example submitting invalid records or applying after deadline.

we apologise for any inconveniences and thank you for your co-operation.

Yours Sincerely

HM Revenue & Customs

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i went to the link and it takes you to another page which looks like HM Revenue and customs then asks you to choose which bank your with i clicked Natwest (im not with them but wanted to see what happened) and it then went to what looked like nat west online banking services and wanted me to put my details in, of course i never did this ,
so watch out for this one peeps , i dont seriously think HM Rev would be contacting me via my msn messenger account if they owed me any money , i hope no one else these dirtbags send this to fall for this,

This scam was mentioned in one of the Sunday paper financial sections in the last week or two, there are several versons of it doing the rounds, some obviosuly a blend of UK & USA terminology, some with distinctly dodgy english, so quite obviously a scam, and some which at first glance seem very genuine.  All just have the aim of getting bank details.  Best not to click through at all, even just to see what is wanted, but to delete it.  HMRC do have a an email address for reporting this scam to.  I have had quite a few versions of it now, seem to be coming through at about 2 per week.

Hello their i went to the real HM customs and rev web site and reported it to them here phishing@hmrc.gov.uk .like it said,

iv had scam emails in the past but normaly the ones that are from someone claiming to be in Africa and want to move their money thu my account , silly ones like that i find hard to belive anyone would fall for but this one is the first one that actully sends you to what looks like a real .gov web site , then the bank sites it does look real untill you think about it i mean  come on like this Goverment would be emailing you wanting to give you money lol thats just madness, lol,
i will probley be bombarded with them now that i clicked it but i never use that email address much anyway and i dont do much via internet banking hopefully i wont have caused myself any probs me and my Curiosity just had to have a peek and we all know what Curiosity did to the cat dont we :-o

I can't believe anyone would actually fall for this email!