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JaneyCanuck
I do appreciate your help and have looked at the site you suggested. However, the email I received was a name I recognised saying H******. Then I received another email from the same name saying don't open if you get an email saying H******** as his account had been hacked. The first one was obviously the hacker and the warning was too late. Now I'm wondering how I will know if the hacker has got my info. Very useless on computer knowledge.

And lucky me has just received an email from HM Revenue and Customs notifying me of a tax refund of 988.50.

I am really chuffed that Her Majesty's government has seen fit to pay that amount of cash (and I am not quite certain whether that will be in Aussie dollars or Brit pounds) to a colonist who has never put in a UK tax return in her life.

Yes I have contacted them through the fraudulent email button on their site. Received the usual automatic reply with the suggestion I consign the email to the big cyberspace rubbish bin.

It was easy for me to know the email was a fraud because I do not have dealings with your Revenue Office. However if I had been British and received the message I might have been tempted to take a look at it further.

So just remember our Revenue and Customs, or Taxation Offices do not notify of tax return amounts over the internet. They do not require your personal details. They already have them on file anyway.

I understood that, Phyllis.

However, if you had read the link I offered (which I did offer for a reason!), you would have seen that it talks about how the details of these things get changed. The hoaxes are all the same, only the names are different.

Thanks Shelly & Janey
I have run a full scan and it showed 1 problem located, 1 fixed.

Janey, the e mail wasn't from simon 25.

Have a read here:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/simon25-hacker-hoax.shtml

It sounds like what you received.

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... According to this warning message, "accepting" an email from a person named Simon Ashton, who uses the email address [email protected], will allow him to hack your email account as well as the accounts of other people on your email contact list.

... These bogus hacker warnings are just variations of a long-running series of hoaxes like the one shown below that claim that simply adding an email address to your list will infect you computer with a virus: ...

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What I would do is ask the person who sent me the email warning me about email "saying H*****" why they sent it.

As far as I'm concerned and can tell, this is just more garbage trashing up the information highway.

Why do so many people still pass on any old trash they receive without doing anything at all to check on it??

I just googled

hoax email hacker account

I received an e mail saying if you receive an e mail saying H***** dont open it as a hacker has got into my account. Unforunately the warning came too late for me and I had opened it as It showed the same name as the one who sent the warning. How do I stand now I opened it. Can the hacker get all my info.

Very worried