Woodseats Medical Centre

DWP fraudulent text message

We have been made aware of text messages that have been issued to some DWP customers. The text messages relate to claiming either Cost of Living payments or Winter Fuel and invites the text recipients to claim via clicking a link.
These messages have been reported to DWP Security for awareness. Please remain vigilant and advise that DWP will only send links which point to the GOV.UK website.
Advice:
– Do not to click the links within these messages.
– Advise customers to refer any of these text messages to Action Fraud: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/what-is-action-fraud
– Recommend customers to block the number from their mobile phone