Tax rebate scam emails and texts

Colleagues have recently reported receiving emails that appear to be from HMRC about working from home tax rebate.

Here is HMRC advice to customers:

• recognise the signs - genuine organisations like banks and HMRC will never contact you out of the blue to ask for your PIN, password or bank details
• stay safe - do not give out private information, reply to text messages, download attachments or click on links in emails you weren’t expecting
• take action - forward suspicious emails claiming to be from HMRC to phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk and texts to 60599, or contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 to report any suspicious calls or use its online fraud reporting tool
• check GOV.UK for information on how to avoid and report scams and recognise genuine HMRC contact
• if you think you have received an HMRC-related phishing/bogus email or text message, you can check it against the examples shown in this guide

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