Quote:A text message-based tax scam is making the rounds in the U.K., in a probable harbinger of things to come as the U.S. tax season gets underway in earnest.
SMS messages are going out to unsuspecting U.K. citizens claiming to be from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the country’s IRS-equivalent. Spotted by researchers at Sophos, the messages tell targets that they’ve received a refund for “overpayment in year 2019/2020” and are asked to click a link to “proceed.”
The link, https://www.hmrev.customs.[REDACTED].com, seems somewhat believable, noted Paul Ducklin, researcher at Sophos, as does the rest of the campaign – it’s “annoyingly believable” he noted in a blog on the campaign, posted Friday.
“In this scam, we have to admit that the crooks pulled off a surprisingly believable sequence of web pages – not perfect, but visually believable nevertheless,” he said. “Their pages look similar to the pages you’d see on a genuine U.K. government site; they’ve included niceties such as a coronavirus warning in order to add a touch of timely realism; they’ve mostly used the right sort of terminology, such as remembering to ask for your National Insurance number instead of your SSN; and they’ve remembered not to put a ‘Z’ in the word ‘organization.'”
Read more: https://threatpost.com/believable-tax-sc...rs/163951/
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