Scammers stole £47m from HMRC in phishing attack

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1. This is not phishing. Phishing would be if there were a fake hmrc tax site and citizens entered their real tax return and accompanying information into the fake website, then criminal actors file on the real website using said information.

   What the article is talking about is more a symptom of everyone’s data being leaked 50x over by corporations, criminal groups can simply buy images of random peoples passports, NIN numbers and so on until they’re able to pass the checks and have the HMRC believe they are you.

   Some of the ones involving insurance include salary figures down to the exact $ so they’re able to select who will have the least likelihood of being flagged when filing for the largest returns / entering false data to fraudulently be returned excessive amounts (under the stolen identity).

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