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MSE News: WARNING! Now it's not just scam HMRC emails – expect calls too
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Fraudsters pretending to be from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are expanding their unscrupulous activities after years of sending out fake emails to now calling unsuspecting consumers – and some are duping victims into paying them in gift cards and vouchers. But there are ways you can fight back against these phoneys...
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'WARNING! Now it's not just scam HMRC emails – expect calls too'
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An invitation to pay your tax by using iTunes vouchers?
Can anybody really be that dumb?0 -
how on earth do people fall for this one? other spoofers maybe.
but this is HMRC! they never tell you when they owe you money!
you have to do all the chasing in that case!0 -
One victim reported purchasing over 15 iTunes gift card vouchers from high street retailer Argos at £100 each and handing their serial numbers over to fraudsters on the phone after receiving an automated voice message. Another victim handed gift card voucher codes worth £15,000 after receiving a cold call.
Rich and dumb, what a combo :doh:I'm a Board Guide on the Credit Cards, Loans, Credit Files & Ratings boards. I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly, and I can move and merge threads there. Any views are mine and not the official line of moneysavingexpert.com0 -
I can understand someone being gullible enough to send cash to "HMRC", but iTunes vouchers? That's not gullible, that's plain stupid.0
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how on earth do people fall for this one? other spoofers maybe.
but this is HMRC! they never tell you when they owe you money!
you have to do all the chasing in that case!
Really?
If you have overpaid tax during the year then it will be repaid once the record has been reviewed at the end of the tax year. The process runs generally between June and October.
If you do Self Assessment, then HMRC will send you a calculation from this submission if you complete the paper form, otherwise the online service provides you with a calculation.
So your comment is wrong. HMRC do tell you when they owe you money, they just don't notify or tell you how much repayments are over the phone or by email/text/tweet/facebook etc etc...
Regarding bogus contact, it makes no difference how many times people are told not to give personal details when they receive texts/emails/phone calls etc, there are hundreds of people who do it week after week.
I spent 25 minutes trying to convince a taxpayer on Monday that the bank AND credit card details he gave via an email the other day were not given to HMRC and in fact he isn't due a repayment, and that he was most likely the victim of a scam.
He's apparently reporting me, personally, to the police for fraud as he believes I have stolen his details. (He has my name as I'm required to give it), but clearly this person obviously didn't take the news well that he'd been scammed and decided to take it out on me, which is fair enough. It doesn't help his case though.
Unfortunately people do, and will continue to fall for these scams[SIZE=-1]To equate judgement and wisdom with occupation is at best . . . insulting.
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One victim purchased over 15 iTunes gift card vouchers from high street retailer Argos at £100 each and handed the serial numbers over to fraudsters on the phone after receiving an automated voice message. Another victim handed over gift card voucher codes worth £15,000 after receiving a cold call.
seriously ?
I expect they also send 100k to Nigeria expecting to be made a multimillionaire"If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane"0 -
"Between April 2015 and March 2016, HMRC did the following:
Blocked eight million malicious emails destined for taxpayers"
How did they manage to do that??"You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0 -
how on earth do people fall for this one? other spoofers maybe.
but this is HMRC! they never tell you when they owe you money!
you have to do all the chasing in that case!
My mother fell for something similar. She was in the early stages of dementia, and paid out about £5k to various scams. Social services said she had capacity, so refused to support us in encouraging her to move closer to family, where she could be better cared for.
I just had the call, but they hung up when I pressed 1:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:0 -
A fool and his iTunes vouchers are soon parted.0
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