HMRC Self employed covid grany

JJC1956

‘I plead on blended knee - put scams in the online safety bill’, online platforms ‘should be given a legal responsibility to protect users’. Not my words but those of Martin Lewis of MSE yesterday.

Upsidedownandaround

There is already plenty of legislation applying to the use of premium rate numbers. Here is one of MSE's pages on it for people who are still not familiar with what a premium rate number is and how they work.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/mobiles/0870-say-no/

middlingditch

I'm baffled by this whole scenario as I can't see any 090 numbers when I search for 'HMRC online' or 'SEISS helpline' or 'tax advice' or any related search terms that you would think would throw up scam numbers. Maybe "my" algorithms are different...

sparklep0ny

middlingditch said:

I'm baffled by this whole scenario as I can't see any 090 numbers when I search for 'HMRC online' or 'SEISS helpline' or 'tax advice' or any related search terms that you would think would throw up scam numbers. Maybe "my" algorithms are different...

Ne either, but none of it is particularly clear.

Op also says their grant had been claimed but it's not clear how they know that.  And they don't seem to be particularly keen on spilling the beans either so it's probably for the best if this thread is left to die, it's not serving a useful purpose for anyone at this point.

DjangoUnchained

i think premium numbers should be completely outlawed. Theres never a justifiable reason for them. they are an underhand way of abstracting money often from people who dont understand how it works.

JJC1956

JJC1956 said:

‘I plead on blended knee - put scams in the online safety bill’, online platforms ‘should be given a legal responsibility to protect users’. Not my words but those of Martin Lewis of MSE yesterday.

Bended not Blended