Beware the spammers/trojons are getting sneakier.
Just had an email that is virtually identical to the acknowledgement that HMRC send you when you submit your online VAT return.
The Subject: and body text are a copy 'n paste with only the reference number (which should be your VAT number) incorrect. Even the GSi virus scanning text is retained to make it look "safe".
There is an extra line "For the latest information on your VAT Return please open attached report." Ho Ho ho, it's a .zip file which contains a .exe which will no doubt load some nasty into your (windows?) machine.(*)
What I find curious that I should get this around now as my VAT return *is* due but I've yet to complete/submit it. Another give away is that in plain text the trojon body text is paragraph formated, a real one from HMRC isn't it's just one big block of text.
A look at the header shows my trojon to have come from a machine in .pl (Poland). The real HMRC acknowledge ment comes from gsi.gov.uk via messaglabs.com.
(*) My Mail eXchnage (MX) agent rejects most spam at the SMTP level at the rate of a dozen or more per hour, only two or three spam/scam/trojons per *week* actually make it to my inbox. These trojons are basically the only ones that get through and have only really appeared in the last month or so. Previous ones have been "missed parcel delivery" or "print out this returns label" sort of thing.