Inland revenue call is it a scam?

[4rephill]

I'm totally fed up with HMRC and the police!

I received a call from HMRC telling me that I was guilty of a tax fraud, that an arrest warrant had been issued for my immediate arrest, and that I needed to call their phone number to sort the issue out and get the warrant cancelled.

I decided to ignore all of this, and after 3 months, and having been around many police vehicles during that time, I'm still waiting to be arrested!

Now I'm no kind of "Jason Bourne", living undetected, "off the grid" - If the authorities want to find me, it's not exactly impossible, so where the Hell is my immediate arrest?

[Pothole]

Old Merc said:

I get scam mails almost every day,99% in my junk box.One was from a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi who wanted help in transferring 10 million US dollars to the UK.
Now then,if I was a computer genius with all the gear.Would it be possible to send a reply to one of these scammers that would infect and bugger up their computers.

Highly possible. Illegal. Likely to backfire.

[bitchstewie]

Old Merc said:

I get scam mails almost every day,99% in my junk box.One was from a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi who wanted help in transferring 10 million US dollars to the UK.
Now then,if I was a computer genius with all the gear.Would it be possible to send a reply to one of these scammers that would infect and bugger up their computers.

You're dealing with organised criminal gangs just as much as you are someone from Lagos.

Just ignore it.

[FunkyNige]

Old Merc said:

I get scam mails almost every day,99% in my junk box.One was from a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi who wanted help in transferring 10 million US dollars to the UK.
Now then,if I was a computer genius with all the gear.Would it be possible to send a reply to one of these scammers that would infect and bugger up their computers.

There are people on YouTube who do this to the Indian call centre scammers, here's one of them -
https://youtu.be/xb_rgQ4IDS8

The sad thing is the list of people they have scammed in a spreadsheet (not sure if it's in that video above or not), it's just constant.

[Merc 450]

It was a scam but it was the day after i'd cashed in a pension at 55 and paid 40% tax on it, so it made me wonder, should be due a bit of the tax back though