Anybody had their dropbox link from hmrc yet?

jgrey1987

As the title says has anybody had their dropbox link from hmrc yet?
I've had a call from them but not had the email yet.

MattMattMattUK

jgrey1987 said:

As the title says has anybody had their dropbox link from hmrc yet?
I've had a call from them but not had the email yet.

Are you sure that it was not a scammer rather than HMRC who called? As far as I am aware HMRC do not use DropBox and actively discourage it's use in sending them data. 

Batesy1976

MattMattMattUK said:

jgrey1987 said:

As the title says has anybody had their dropbox link from hmrc yet?
I've had a call from them but not had the email yet.

Are you sure that it was not a scammer rather than HMRC who called? As far as I am aware HMRC do not use DropBox and actively discourage it's use in sending them data. 

They are doing for the newly self-employed who are now eligible for the fourth grant.

www.icaew.com/insights/tax-news/2021/mar-2021/preverification-checks-for-new-seiss-claims

It's pretty amateurish, I agree.

MattMattMattUK

Batesy1976 said:

MattMattMattUK said:

jgrey1987 said:

As the title says has anybody had their dropbox link from hmrc yet?
I've had a call from them but not had the email yet.

Are you sure that it was not a scammer rather than HMRC who called? As far as I am aware HMRC do not use DropBox and actively discourage it's use in sending them data. 

They are doing for the newly self-employed who are now eligible for the fourth grant.

www.icaew.com/insights/tax-news/2021/mar-2021/preverification-checks-for-new-seiss-claims

It's pretty amateurish, I agree.

Thanks, I was not aware of that and yes, incredibly amateurish, it should be through the government gateway like everything else. Especially as their previous guidance has discouraged the use of DropBox/Drive/OneDrive etc. This is hugely open to callers pretending to be scammers and sending people links to a DropBox folder which is very easy to customise.