Please be advised of the following scam raised with, and confirmed by, DWP Security and Data Protection Team.

DWP Cyber Resilience Team are aware of this scam and have taken action on it, as well as referring it to the Security Incident Reporting Team for their records. Security Teams do not distribute scam (potential or otherwise) alerts to colleagues so always worth highlighting what we can to protect customers and communities across Wales and wider.

Please encourage any partners organisations that become aware that any of our customers are receiving these or similar texts to report them via Action Fraud.