This Content Was Last Updated on February 9, 2017 by Jessica Garbett

 

Scam emails purporting to be from HMRC are circulating, mostly offering tax refunds – in fact they are so called ‘pishing’ scams to try and get sensative personal information from you for ID fraud.

It goes without saying you should not reply to them – just delete.

HMRC have a page on these at:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm