One of my clients received the following email, apparently from HMRC…

According to your tax payments for 2014 year period we found that you gave a wrong legal address in your last tax payment. In order to avoid penalty fees on your tax dues we ask you to contact our specialist having checked the previous payment in advance (the DOC invoice attached below).

Regards
Hilda Quinn
Tax Inspector

This is a scam! HMRC would never email you regarding anything important, or about anything that requires you to take action. If you do receive anything like this, delete it from your computer and never click on any suspicious looking links.

Luckily, my client forwarded the spam email to me and I was able to reassure her that her accounts were in order, and that this was nothing to worry about.  If you are concerned about any tax office correspondence (whether spam or real), feel free to get contact me.