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Renewing your TV licence? Watch out for a scam...

Blue in Munich

Blue in Munich

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Mrs BiM renewed the TV licence recently. Found an e-mail in her inbox that at first look seemed legitimate. Claimed that the payment hadn't gone through, and had a convenient button that linked you to a site to remake your payment.

Closer investigation revealed that the date was the 9/3/20 (so not English in origin) and it claimed the licence expired on the 5th of September (they all run to the end of the month, as per car tax). A quick call to the credit card company confirmed payment had gone through. And we'd had the confirmation e-mail from TV Licensing.

Be on your guard and pass it on. (y)

And does anyone know where phishing emails like this should be passed on to?

Thanks.
 
I must get a dozen of these a day. Some companies have dedicated email you can forward them to otherwise just delete.
I get loads of phone call scams too.
 
I got the TV licence one last week also. And PayPal ones.

My rule of thumb is easy. Legit requests never come looking for updated banking or any financial etc details in such a manner. And legit businesses holding your financial details would never send you an email that contains any spelling mistakes. Especially Amzaon - or some suchlike nonsense I got recently.
 
Gmail filters most of that crap out, but it's always worth checking the email address they come from. Often those spam email addresses are a garbled mess of letters and numbers where it's been randomly regenerated, or certainly something made up that is far removed from the genuine company's email.
 
Blue in Munich said:
Mrs BiM renewed the TV licence recently. Found an e-mail in her inbox that at first look seemed legitimate. Claimed that the payment hadn't gone through, and had a convenient button that linked you to a site to remake your payment.

Closer investigation revealed that the date was the 9/3/20 (so not English in origin) and it claimed the licence expired on the 5th of September (they all run to the end of the month, as per car tax). A quick call to the credit card company confirmed payment had gone through. And we'd had the confirmation e-mail from TV Licensing.

Be on your guard and pass it on. (y)

And does anyone know where phishing emails like this should be passed on to?

Thanks.
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I got one too... you can report to the NCSC.. details below

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/report-suspicious-emails
 
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