HMRC.

[astrologica]

Has anyone on here heard of a scam involving HMRC? My neighbour has had a text message saying that she is due a tax rebate, and giving a web address. She looked on the website and it wants all her details etc. I advised her to ignore it, as it seems a bit suspicious to me. Surely if a person were due a tax rebate they would be contacted by mail? I have heard of many different scams, but not this particular one.

[right-then-petal]

https://www.gov.uk/contact-hmrc

Contact hmrc if you think its a scam,halfway down the page

Hello Astro

[cee-dee]

It's an old scam:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/10624790/HMRC-warns-of-scam-tax-rebate-emails...

[artful_dodgings]

'If HMRC needs to contact you about anything confidential they’ll reply by phone or post.

HMRC never send notifications of a tax rebate or ask you to disclose personal or payment information by email or text message'.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs/contact/reporting-fraudulent-emails

[astrologica]

Ahhh.....thank you both. As I suspected. I will tell her to delete the text. She thought she was due a nice little windfall!☹️

[astrologica]

Hello Petal! .....Thanks for the link. I will report it for her tomorrow.

[tuckerbigdaddy5ngv]

You have a rebate,please send your bank details

You owe tax ,pay by western union

You have won the HMRC lottery ,please send bank details

Your computer is sending us fault messages ,give us remote control so we can fix it

I get all of these and more by phone not text as i do not allow roaming

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hmrc+scam