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Not another scam!!!
Back in the 1970s Unigate Dairies ran an advertising campaign telling people to “Watch out, there’s a Humphrey about” — the Humphreys being milk thieves.* The slogan could be updated to “Watch out, there’s a scammer about”.
Today I’ve had another scam email land in my email inbox. Obviously since it came by email it’s not an attempt to swindle me via Medium.com. The scam message I received today is UK based. I think folk on Medium probably would have enough about them to realise it’s a confidence trick — should they receive a similar email — but I’ll explain it anyway.
It purported to come from a government department, the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), saying that I owed them some money. It read thus:-
“Welcome
Your latest vehicle tax payment failed. It appears that some of the billing details associated with you might have expired or were otherwise changed.
Our system will automatically retry the billing process once your billing details have been updated. It can take up to 5 working days for the records to update. To continue to the update page, please update your vehicle tax details.
Please Note: If you don’t pay your vehicle tax on time, you may be fined up to £1,000, or your details may be passed to a debt collection agency.”
