Money saving guru Martin Lewis has issued a specific warning about receiving scam calls - after one targeted him. The financial advice expert was called by an automated system which claimed it was from the HMRC (His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) - and decided to play along.
He was told that he should press the number 1 - which he did. Martin told his twitter followers: “Just got a scam automated call from ‘HMRC’ on my mobile. Electronic voice with US accent telling me I hadn’t replied to a letter and legal action was being started... “press 1 to urgently speak to an agent”.
“Decided to play along and see what happened. Pressed 1, man answered saying HMRC, I said “Hello can you tell me which HMRC office you are part of please. that was enough. He rang off. No fun at all!”
