{"id":1573,"date":"2016-11-01T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2016-11-01T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:02:12","slug":"50000-taxpayers-hit-with-hmrc-scam-emails-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/50000-taxpayers-hit-with-hmrc-scam-emails-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 taxpayers hit with HMRC scam emails every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals are targeting as many as 50,000 taxpayers every single day with scam emails purporting to be from HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC), according to reports.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The figures were revealed earlier today, as the Government announced plans to enforce a \u00a31.9billion five-year plan to fight cybercrime, which officials have suggested will make Britain\u2019s online infrastructure one of the safest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, an increasing number of Britons are receiving bogus emails with false HMRC branding, requesting personal details from taxpayers and claiming that they are due a fictitious rebate, or must pay a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Many have fallen victim to the ubiquitous scam, which peaked in September, and Government officials have now voiced fears that the so-called digital revolution has left the UK \u2018increasingly vulnerable\u2019 to cyber-attacks and online fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the National Audit Office (NAO) warned that HMRC\u2019s move to \u2018an all-digital tax system\u2019 would almost certainly increase cybercrime among taxpayers and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking today, Chancellor Philip Hammond, said: &#8220;Our new strategy&#8230; will allow us to take even greater steps to defend ourselves in cyberspace and to strike back when we are attacked\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Britain had a duty to \u201ckeep up with the scale and pace of the threats we face&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals are targeting as many as 50,000 taxpayers every single day with scam emails purporting to be from HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC), according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}