Heads Up (Brits)

[evadgib]

FYI: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/scam-emails-claiming-to-be-from-companies-house

I had one in my inbox an hour ago before I'd seen this.

[OJAS]

Hmm, looks like "phisermen" have now turned to dangling baits on the GOV.UK website if this and the HMRC telephone number scam you have highlighted in another thread are to be believed!

[evadgib]

Having received another from HMRC demanding 'GBP 24k in arrears' I think everyone should take a look at what i did with it:

https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing

Edited June 4, 2018 by evadgib

[OJAS]

3 hours ago, evadgib said:

Having received another from HMRC demanding 'GBP 24k in arrears' I think everyone should take a look at what i did with it:

https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing

Hmm, not sure that the advice to forward suspicious text messages to 60599 would work from Thailand - definitely not with a Thai SIM card, I would have thought, and probably not with a roaming UK one either.

[evadgib]

Hmmm, why did I bother?

[OJAS]

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

Hmmm, why did I bother?

Hmm no criticism of you but rather of the UK-centric approach taken by HMG on this point. Why could the GOV.UK website not have included a UK mobile number (in the +447xxxxxxxxx format) to which scam texts could have been forwarded as an alternative?

[evadgib]

Thank you for letting us know about the suspicious email/text you have received.

Our specialist team will investigate and take the necessary action. Whilst we cannot inform you of the outcome of these investigations I can confirm that we do act on each submission we receive.

HMRC will never send notifications of a tax refund or ask you to disclose personal or payment information by email.

In common with all providers of online services, HMRC takes security very seriously but you need to be alert.

We continuously monitor systems and customer records to guard against fraudulent activity.  The methods fraudsters use to get the information they want is constantly changing so we provide regular updates on the types of scams we are aware of.  The main risk is identity or user ID and password theft.  Please ensure that you keep your user ID and passwords secure and change your passwords regularly. 

HMRC publicises details of current scams on our website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phishing-and-bogus-emails-hm-revenue-and-customs-examples

  
Please continue to forward all suspicious HMRC related e-mails to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 

Regards

HMRC Online Security Team

 

[sappersrest]

Thank you for the reminder much apreciated  .

 

 

[evadgib]

On 6/5/2018 at 11:40 PM, sappersrest said:

Thank you for the reminder much apreciated.

Having failed to find an appropriate place to post this I hope you'll appreciate this too...

 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/grave-of-d-day-army-medic-rededicated-74-years-after-his-death

Edited June 8, 2018 by evadgib