TV Licensing direct debit scam email

Vet

Scammers will try and get you with anything nowadays. Don't really trust any emails anymore.

eskbanker

Vet wrote: »

Scammers will try and get you with anything nowadays. Don't really trust any emails anymore.

It must be said though that phishing has been around for over twenty years, so, while specifically doing this under the guise of TV Licensing may be a recent variant, the concept is well established, as are the counter-measures that recipients should take....

http://www.phishing.org/history-of-phishing

FTBuyerGlasgow

Girl I know on Facebook posted about this, she stupidly followed the link and input her card details. She then got another email saying that payment failed and to go on and do the payment again.

It was only then that she tippled.

badger09

FTBuyerGlasgow wrote: »

Girl I know on Facebook posted about this, she stupidly followed the link and input her card details. She then got another email saying that payment failed and to go on and do the payment again.

It was only then that she tippled.

Drowning her sorrows?:p

Terry_Towelling

FTBuyerGlasgow wrote: »

Girl I know on Facebook posted about this, she stupidly followed the link and input her card details. She then got another email saying that payment failed and to go on and do the payment again.

It was only then that she tippled.

If she input card details twice, was she charged as a result of those 'transactions', or did the scammers use her card details to commit other frauds?

I ask because, having her account directly charged means the scammers have card facilities and the acquiring bank needs to know so they can terminate and seize as much cash as possible. Also, depending on the nature of the resulting transaction(s) it may be possible to have the item(s) charged back - despite the fact that she authorised them.

Right now, I'm not sure what Chargeback might fit although she might claim not to have received the TV Licence service she thought she was paying for. Anything is worth a try but it all depends how the fraudulent transactions appear.

Westie983

My DD failed last month for TV licience as it was 4p more then it normally is so it bounced as I didn't notice the same day to cover it and I got an email telling me that my DD will be double this month to cover last months so they don't ask you to pay again the same month. I have also checked online and it says the same.

Should give you an idea that any other email from them could be a scam.

Westie983

Brewer20

I smelt a rat straight away when my email came through. As others have had the email was telling me to check the payment as it had been refused or something like that. It went on to say your payment is now due as your licence runs out on the 23rd of the month. Licence runs out mid month??

Mine has always run out at the end of the month and they got the month wrong anyway and I pay annually (one off payment by card) not monthly.

Tropi

Here is a current scam, but very persuasive.
My age has now excused me totally from needing a TV licence and I even got a refund last year for a slight overpayment. So I felt safe to tell these people that there must be an Administrative error because that seemed so obviously the case. But I hesitated. Then I noticed that their ridiculously, implausibly long Sender Address Email contained an easy-to-miss spelling error - dorect instead of direct.
Bustards!:eek: