![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) simont |
Tue 2007-01-02 10:57 |
Paper phishing? Gosh. Actually hadn't occurred to me. Does it happen?
Seems reasonably unlikely, though, because they aren't asking for anything really scary like bank details (my DOB is the most personal detail on the form), and because they already know a lot about me (such as my work address and NI number). I'd expect phishing to contain a lot less existing detail and ask for a lot more, particularly if it's done on paper and hence is subject to postal charges.
But I double-checked anyway by googling up the HMRC office addresses in question, and the address on the reply envelope is indeed the address of HMRC Cambridgeshire Area. So, no, it isn't phishing.
(The reply envelope, incidentally, is one of those irritating ones with a little box labelled "Please affix postage stamp", which is terribly easy to mistake for a reply-paid one if you just register that there's a printed thing in the corner and don't look any closer. Bloody cheapskates.) |
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