In the latest episode of scams targeted against HMRC, individuals are sent an email alerting them that they have missed a delivery of a letter from HMRC, and are told to click a link to allow urgent delivery of a ‘large HMRC letter’

The same scam is targeting individuals of all ages using UK mobile phone numbers, threatening them with legal action for failure to respond.

Messages to HMRC Support on X, formerly Twitter, are reporting multiple instances of the fake phone calls.

One user described the phone caller stating that ‘a letter has been returned to HMRC and if I do not respond then I would face legal action’.

The letter scam states that Royal Mail tried to deliver a ‘large letter’ to the individual taxpayer, which was described as a ‘package from HM Revenue & Customs’.

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