HMRC tax rebate texts and emails
A text or email that a tax rebate is due, with a link to a form that collects identity and bank details. HMRC publishes a guide to recognising its real contacts and the fakes.
- Impersonates
- HMRC
- Arrives by
- SMS, email, phone call
- First seen
- not dated
- Specimens
- 0
- Updated
- 2026-09-02
Right now what this family looks like
How to recognise it
- HMRC does not tell you about rebates by text with a link
- The form asks for bank details "to pay the rebate"
- Urgency: claim within days
What to do
- Do not use the link; forward texts to 60599 and emails to phishing@hmrc.gov.uk
- Check your tax account only through gov.uk
- Delete it
Already called, clicked or paid? what to do in the next hour
- Entered a password? Change it now, and everywhere else you used the same one
- Entered card details? Call your bank, ask them to block the card and reissue
- Entered a one-time code? Sign in to the real service now and check for changes to email, phone and payment settings
How it changed
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02 Sept2026
Registry
Family created
Opened at launch from HMRC's own guidance; no dated specimen on record yet — send yours.
Same trick, other brands
- IRS refund and "unpaid tax" messagesactive · 2026-09
- Canada Revenue Agency refund and e-Transfer scamsarchived · 2026-09
Indicators
- None on record yet. Indicators change weekly; an empty list never means an email is safe.
In other streams
- Nothing yet.
Registry data
- Machine-readable
/scams/hmrc-tax-rebate.json- Timeline feed
/scams/hmrc-tax-rebate/feed.xml- Sources
- 1 · 1 change logged
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 · attribution required
- Created / updated
- 2026-09-02 / 2026-09-02