ID thieves try to steal millions from U.K. taxman

It's a nice change when the taxman is the one who's stolen from, rather than doing the stealing, and it must have been a reasonably big deal to make it into the press over here. However, although the theory of stealing from the taxman sounds good, who's money are they actually stealing? The taxman doesn't get a pay cut, does he? On further review though, it does look like the government managed to get more money back from EDS than they got ripped off from the site (which given the fact that I'm sure the same scams could be attempted with or without a website, seems a pretty good deal). Unless of course, the money from EDS was just coz they screwed up the project in the first place, and wasted a load of taxpayers money independently of the fraud....

I'm so glad I don't work in the UK computer industry sometimes.

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