Almost 24,000 fraudulent emails were reported to HMRC last month, an increase of nearly 300% on last year.
Almost 24,000 fraudulent emails were reported to HMRC last month, an increase of nearly 300% on last year.
The increase is partly due to improved awareness of the scam, said Joan Wood, Director of HMRC Online and Digital. ‘However, I have no doubt that more of these “phishing” emails are in general circulation than ever before.’
HMRC urged anyone receiving an email purporting to be from HMRC and offering a tax repayment not to follow the email’s instructions but to follow the guidance on the HMRC websiteinstead. The department said it was helping to ‘shut down around 100 scam websites a month’.
Almost 24,000 fraudulent emails were reported to HMRC last month, an increase of nearly 300% on last year.
Almost 24,000 fraudulent emails were reported to HMRC last month, an increase of nearly 300% on last year.
The increase is partly due to improved awareness of the scam, said Joan Wood, Director of HMRC Online and Digital. ‘However, I have no doubt that more of these “phishing” emails are in general circulation than ever before.’
HMRC urged anyone receiving an email purporting to be from HMRC and offering a tax repayment not to follow the email’s instructions but to follow the guidance on the HMRC websiteinstead. The department said it was helping to ‘shut down around 100 scam websites a month’.
