Be very careful if you get an email like this from HMRC

Be very careful if you receive an email or phone call purporting to be from HMRC

A recent telephone scam we heard about was someone phoning from a “debt collection agency” or “solicitors”, saying they were calling on behalf of HMRC, and threatening severe action if you didn’t pay immediately over the phone.  Of course, you should never do this – if in any doubt call back one of the genuine numbers on HMRC’s website.

We have become aware of some very cleverly designed emails that are going around at the moment.  They purport to come from HMRC.  Typically these will tell you that you are due a refund and then proceed to try and suck you into giving the spammers more information.

These look very real – but the email addresses are covers and not real.  So take great care.

A recent example looks like this – and it’s very good.  It even took us a few moments to work out it wasn’t real.

Interestingly they have even used a genuine address at the foot of the email to report phishing.  How cunning!

We have removed the green “Get started” link which was to a site with a domain tax.service-gov.com which is NOT a genuine “.gov.uk” site

If you get something you are not sure about, have a look at HMRC’s own advice here https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing or speak to your accountant.

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