Poster: raising awareness about financial requests for COVID-19 booster vaccines (HTML)
Published 24 January 2022
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Poster
Beware of financial requests for COVID-19 booster vaccines.
Criminals are sending text messages, emails and making phone calls, pretending to be from the NHS, to steal money, financial details and personal information relating to the COVID-19 booster vaccine.
- The COVID-19 booster vaccine is free
- The NHS will never ask for payment or any financial details relating to the COVID-19 booster vaccine
- The NHS will never arrived unannounced at your home to administer the COVID-19 booster vaccine
Do not respond to requests for money or important personal information such as bank details or passwords.
Be alert to links and attachments in unexpected text messages or emails.
For information on how to book or manage a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine, visit nhs.uk/CovidVaccination.
Further guidance and support
If you receive a call and suspect it to be fraudulent, hang up. If you are suspicious about an email, forward it to report@phishing.gov.uk. If you are suspicious about a text message, forward it to the number 7726, which is free-of-charge.
If you believe you are the victim of a fraud, please report this to Action Fraud as soon as possible by visiting actionfraud.police.uk or calling 0300 123 2040.
If you have any information relating to NHS COVID Pass or vaccine certificate fraud you can stay 100% anonymous by contacting Crimestoppers online at covidfraudhotline.org or phone on 0800 587 5030.