Hi,
I am looking for any help or advice about a company falsifying Deeds of Assignment. (Have name changed for this but I am a regular poster)
After getting a letter through from HMRC telling us my husband was due a tax rebate we called to query this (thinking it was a scam!) and it turns out we were due a tax rebate under the married couples allowance, but the cheque has been sent to a limited company.
Not knowing who this company was the HMRC helped me do some digging and it turns out this company has sent in documents from me and my DH giving this company “Deed of Assignment” over our tax affairs.
In early October I completed an initial enquiry about looking into marriage couples allowance with this group, when I completed the enquiry form it said we think you are entitled to a tax rebate, at this point I checked the website and realised this wasn’t a HMRC company and that they were most likely scammers, so I didn’t follow anything up. A few days later I got a call from them asking if I was going to claim and I told them I wasn’t sure because we can sort our tax affairs through DH’s work, and said I would let them know if I changed my mind. So I am confident in saying that anything they have sent through the HMRC giving them any sort of authority has been falsified (am assuming they used an electronic signature or similar?)
HMRC have said that this has happened to a number of people with the same company and it is under investigation. My DH is going to contact HMRC on Monday just to check they have these notes on his file too because so far it’s only been me thats spoken to them.
Am reporting to Action Fraud today online, but I am wondering if anyone knowledgeable can point me in the direction of anything else I need to do.
I have tracked down the company but can’t get through on the phone yet, or had any response to my emails, I was considering writing to them to point out they were never given any authority but is this a pointless endeavour? Should I try and engage with them or wait for HMRC to do it ?
TL:DR
I have found out that a company have falsified Deeds of Assignment in my name and my husband’s name giving them authority over our tax affairs, they have been sent a cheque for over 1k that is our tax rebate - what do we need to do to have any chance of getting this money back (would rather it went back to the treasury than these scamming shits!) and how do we get this Deed of Assignment removed?