What's that smell?

SPAM: new serving suggestion

That nice Mr/Mrs Chumbla in Nigeria has offered me, and I suspect all of you, their money for FREE.

Various Russian nymphettes have offered their bodies to me, and I suspect to all of you, for a very reasonable sum and/or marriage.

Now, HMRC is getting in on the act.

Yes, Her Majesty's very own Revenue and Customs—THE TAXMAN!—wants to give me money that I've overpaid in income tax during the last seven years. The fact that I haven't paid income tax in the UK for more than eight years doesn't seem to be an impediment.

Dear Applicant: Following and upgrade of our computer systems and review of our records we have investigated your payments and latest tax returns over the last seven years our calculations show that you have made over payments of GBP 658.83 Due to the high volume of refunds due you must complete the online application, the telephone help line is unable to assist with this application. In order to process your refund you will need to complete the application form attached to this email download -> unpack -> open in a browser -> and complete the form. Your refund may take up to 6 weeks to process please make sure you complete the form correctly. NOTE: If you've received an Income Tax repayment it will either be following a claim you've made or because HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has received new information about your taxable income or entitlement to allowances. The refund may come through your tax code or as a payment and could relate to the current tax year or earlier years. An Income Tax repayment is a refund of tax that you've overpaid. So, if you've paid too much tax for example through your job or pension this year or in previous years HMRC will send you a repayment. You'll get the repayment by bank transfer directly to your credit or debit card.

All I have to do is open that ZIP attachment. What I don't understand is why HMRC is routing its mail via some Portuguese financial consulting agency:

Return-path: <sec.prog@hmrc.gov.uk>
Envelope-to: xxxxx
Delivery-date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:47:38 +0000
Received: from mail.decisoesesolucoes.com ([195.22.21.102] helo=decisoesesolucoes.com)
by rweb4-v.000025.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <sec.prog@hmrc.gov.uk>)
id 1ROU2c-0005QQ-00
for xxxxx; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:47:38 +0000
Received: from hmrc.gov.uk ([68.225.124.49]) by decisoesesolucoes.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:44:12 +0000
From: HM Revenue & Customs Refund <sec.prog@hmrc.gov.uk>
To: xxxxx
Subject: Your payments and latest tax returns
Date: 10 Sep 2011 07:44:00 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0012_29777AA0.DFFE5668"

How odd. (confused)