Is there anyone out there who knows the genuine procedure about the tax people? A call came from a Manchester phone number (which, when you dial it back, produces the message "the number you have dialled has not been recognised. Please check, and try again")
It was an automated phone call announcing something along the lines of "you are under investigation for tax fraud and there is a warrant for your arrest" My entire life assets would just make an accountant burst out laughing, or crying, so I assumed it must be some scam.
Although, in that case, why weren't they staying on the line to do whatever the plan was, presumably to get money? You can't do a scam by just sending a threat. I didn't hear it properly, but there might have been some option of "press one, to... ".
But later I remembered a policeman I was speaking to years ago in a traffic check. He went to check my licence and came back with an air of "gotcha", asking me about a completely different name and stating it was "very very closely linked" with mine. It was a strange, but whoever she is, I can't help whatever that person does. He told me two forenames, a surname, and the area she lives. I thought if he knows everything about her, then he knows, and can see, she isn't me. But I was certain his head was fixed on the idea I was somehow a criminal with two names, two addresses and presumably two faces. Nothing makes sense.
All I did worry about was that if someone is pretending to be me they might try to hack my bank, but nothing happened. And how could she be pretending to be me yet using a totally, three part, different name?
I simply don't know how to prove a negative, so if this woman owes some tax I can't see what to do. Unlike a proper tax fraud person, I can't afford professionals. If this is the real tax people it is terrifying.
I do hope someone can reassure me this is just a scam.