Scam alert

fretmeister

Just received a recorded message call from "Heather Grey" calling on behalf of the HMRC. American accent claiming they have "filed a law suit against you"

Phone number is 0161 354 9847

That is not a number used by the HMRC. It's a "scare them to make them call back and pay money" type thing.

HMRC will NEVER use a robo-call like that. I've informed HMRC but I thought I would share in the mean time.

randella

Useful info, thanks.

It's got to the point these days where if the landline rings it's either my parents, my wife's parents, or a scam.

octatonic

I have that one before.

gavin_axecaster

The last two days I have had two separate "iffy" cold calls.
First on my house line from "Citizens Advice" wanting me to confirm some details. I cut her off and asked for the full name of her company - "The Citizens Advice Company" comes the reply. I hang up.
Today the call was from "companies house" wanting to confirm details of my business. When I queried the company name I was told "companies house dot gov". When I asked her to confirm that she was calling from a Government agency, she said yes! Then she hung up while I told her that as my company was not Ltd Companies House has no information about it.
These two may not have been as sinister as in the OP - they were probably mining info to sell on to other cold callers/scammers.
I won't help them though.