steve1 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 A warning chaps. I’ve just reported a scam email that purported to be from the DVLA about a failed payment. The giveaways were the usual dubious grammar and incorrect placement of the £ sign. Also the email address to contact that included “sunshinewindowtint” (!) Be careful out there… steve 1 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-5-5-7 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 do you still have the e-mail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Not having given DVLA my email address I would treat any contact from them as a scam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Dave-5-5-7 said: do you still have the e-mail? No. I forwarded it to the gov.uk phishing address*and then deleted it, without clicking on the link. steve *report@phishing.gov.uk 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-5-5-7 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 4 hours ago, steve1 said: No. I forwarded it to the gov.uk phishing address*and then deleted it, without clicking on the link. steve *report@phishing.gov.uk shame, I love scam e-mails. I usually follow the link and put abusive text in the fields or press 1 and keep them going round in circles if I'm really bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2021 6 hours ago, Free At Last said: Not having given DVLA my email address I would treat any contact from them as a scam. Nothing wrong with registering with organisations like that. As Steve suggested, it's all about checking carefully any email, that asks you to do something IMMEDIATELY or ELSE, especially if they want a payment of any type. In fact I consider it essential for things like car registration, because in Oz we have no windscreen sticker any more, as a fall back. So if you forget, you cop a fine for something like $750. No way do I want to pay that, I've got better things to do with my money. There is no leeway for paying, it's due by the day, or you're driving around unregistered. One year, I paid mine at 11.00 of the following day, printed out a receipt and went for a drive, not 15 minutes from home, there's a set of blue & red lights behind me! I'm glad I printed out the receipt, they were happy with that, but got a warning that they would be checking that my payment hadn't bounced, if so I would be seeing them at my home address! We even had a retired Police Commissioner (Chief Constable to you), get pulled up for expired rego, but was able to pay it on the spot - everyone gets that chance, if it's only a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 There's a new NHS one going about as well. One about Covid passports. Not received it myself, just thought I would warn people as apparently it looks convincing. Jason 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2021 I keep getting emails about 'we pay for your shopping'. Also a new one today asking for testers to try out Persil power tabs. Mostly they come to an email addy I don't use for internet shopping so stand out like a standing out thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2021 5 hours ago, Dave-5-5-7 said: shame, I love scam e-mails. I usually follow the link and put abusive text in the fields or press 1 and keep them going round in circles if I'm really bored. I thought clicking on the link runs the risk of allowing hackers/malware to access your computer. Darius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2021 I recieved it as well and my road tax has just been renewed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-5-5-7 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 17 hours ago, Darius43 said: I thought clicking on the link runs the risk of allowing hackers/malware to access your computer. Darius not if you're using a virtual machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DIW Posted June 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 25, 2021 On 22/06/2021 at 17:27, Steamport Southport said: There's a new NHS one going about as well. One about Covid passports. Not received it myself, just thought I would warn people as apparently it looks convincing. Jason I've just received this one (and forwarded it to report@phishing.gov.uk). Here is a screen shot: When hovering on the button 'Get Digital Passport' , the link 'https<colon slash slash>nhspassports<dot>co<dot>uk<slash>digital' is displayed. When sandboxing the site name, DNS errors are returned. Hope this helps! Dave 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Yes. I think that's the one. Some of the unwary would think that's real. Considering I've had three people ask me and I'm not even a computer expert. Jason 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2021 Am sure most on here aren't fooled but in case you have eg elderly relatives etc - a current trend seems to be 'Try out product X for free' The email then has 'click here to unsubscribe' or 'click here to view in your browser'. Email forwarded to report@phishing .gov.uk - I would forward them to that nice gent in Nigeria but he seems to be offline lately. Does anyone know if anything actually happens at the report@phishing.gov.uk site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DIW Posted July 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) You'll probably get a reply like this one: Hope this helps! Dave Edited July 1, 2021 by DIW Removed double image 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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