A wave of scam text messages are being received across the UK, potentially duping people into giving up their card details in order to claim a non-existent government grant.
The scam has been quickly designed to take advantage of confusion following yesterday’s announcement of another national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But there are a number of signals in the text message, including grammar and spelling errors despite claiming to be sent from HM Revenue and Customs, that can alert people to the fraud.

