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Received this today a change from the usual spam emails but about as believable.

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Interesting but some poor souls will fall for it.
 
you really would think that they would perfect their English and sentence structure. At least then you could be forgiven for double checking. By the way how do you get money out of your debit card?
 
At least they got the service manager's name right :D

insidedvla.blog.gov.uk

Rohan Gye in his new role as DVLA’s Vehicle Service manager – Inside DVLA

How we design and deliver our services is changing. Rohan Gye, DVLA’s Vehicle Service manager tells us about his role As one of DVLA’s Service Managers Rohan, can you tell me about your responsibilities? I’m responsible for all DVLA’s vehicle
insidedvla.blog.gov.uk insidedvla.blog.gov.uk
 
i always treat every text to my phone as spam pretty much
 
Perhaps they should have had someone other than Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo proof read the text in that phishing email before they sent it?
 
Mr Badger said:
Perhaps they should have had someone other than Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo proof read the text in that phishing email before they sent it?
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oh the grammar is always utter s***e in these spam emails
 
Mr Bump said:
oddly enough for me it the you's and the your or your's that the f*** up all the time
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Shhh! Don't tell them that! ;) Mind you, it's bad enough on most UK social media sites/forums, not to mention the use of the words their, they're and there - and pretty much any use of an apostrophe before the letter 's'. ;)
 
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I just ignore them, I know what’s paid and what’s not, ‘A fool and his money’?
 
I totally understand older people who get conned like this but a younger person with a clue is just an idiot to be fooled.
How much longer do banks and companies need to keep banging on about never requesting certain information?
Oh, wait, motorway signs still tell us not to drink and drive and wear a seatbelt....
I may not have a degree in English but even I can see bad grammar when it's in my face.
Every day my email spam folder catches the most stupid scams people are trying and in all honesty, what surprises me is how many people who receive these do
not look at the senders email adress.
 
hashcake said:
I totally understand older people who get conned like this but a younger person with a clue is just an idiot to be fooled.
How much longer do banks and companies need to keep banging on about never requesting certain information?
Oh, wait, motorway signs still tell us not to drink and drive and wear a seatbelt....
I may not have a degree in English but even I can see bad grammar when it's in my face.
Every day my email spam folder catches the most stupid scams people are trying and in all honesty, what surprises me is how many people who receive these do
not look at the senders email adress.
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You're right, but if it didn't work then the scammers wouldn't send stuff like that out. People still fall for the 'you have won the (insert obscure country) lottery, you need to send us your bank details so we can pay you, scam. Surely almost everyone can remember whether or not they bought a ticket for a lottery in a country they've probably never actually visited!

Just lately one of my email inboxes has been inundated with contact requests from allegedly attractive young ladies who say they are desperate to do all sorts of naughty things to me. Now, I know I'm extremely popular and exceptionally handsome, but even I got suspicious about that. ;)
 
My brother in law had this just the other day and was almost taken in. He phoned DVLA and they said it's a scam.
 
Paraphrasing from an article I read today.There's been a sharp increase in scammers targetting bank staff either by bribes or blackmail to get them to divulge account details. Two have just been sentenced to two years each. One worked for Santander and was a member of the bank's anti-fraud team and was involved in a £90,000 scam which involved him buying expensive goods over the phone or online and the other one went to shops to collect them but unbelievably collected three Rolex watches worth £14,000 on consecutive days from a jeweller in Gateshead who became suspicious and called the police.On their phones they had photos of them enjoying expensive holidays, going on shopping sprees and pouring champagne over the Rolex watches.

There's now a dedicated police unit dealing with this particular crime. Last year it had 43 referrals from bank staff who had been approached...That's up from 23 in 2019. Last year they stopped £20million of fraud and arrested 100 suspects ,many having targeted vulnerable people during this pandemic in which scams have soared.However, it's very difficult for bank staff to do this because of the high level of security within the banks.

I like to listen to 'Money Box' on a Saturday morning and several times there have been middle-aged people (ie not elderly people who we accept are vulnerable) and very intelligent people relating how he or she has been scammed. I recall one who actually worked in security. I work on the principal that anyone who calls us on the phone and is unknown (in one way or another) is a scammer. If they're not, its a bonus. :)
 
Mr Badger said:
Perhaps they should have had someone other than Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo proof read the text in that phishing email before they sent it?
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Try speaking to a "customer services" person at the DVLA. All but impenetrable accent over a really crackly line.
 
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