Changing Address on Driving License - Warning

boobyd

Anyway I'm not here to argue with anyone I have better uses for my time!
Like reading any form that requires any personel or financial details 😁.

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teachfast said:

This is an impersonation scam in anyone's book. The law may allow it but that doesn't stop community hatred for this duping approach, nor does it stop contempt for those that allow it to happen. 

It's misrepresentation for money, which in other areas of law is a criminal offense. 

No it isn't, in any way, shape or form. It is neither a scam, duping or misrepresentation. The sites look nothing like the Gov sites, they make it 100% clear it is not the DVLA site and that you can do it free on the official site. They are providing a "service" which people choose to do or choose to use the free option. Comes up every few weeks whether it's driving licence, passport or any other service that is free that people choose to pay for because they don't read the disclaimers.

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HayleyD83 said:

macman said:

It's 100% legal and it's not a scam. You engaged a third party to process your change of address and willingly paid £80 for them to do it for you, when the direct service is free.
The commercial listing has 'Ad' against it and is a .co.uk address. The .gov.uk one is the third one down on the search page.
If it's any consolation, this comes up most weeks.

Actually no I didn't - I only entered my payment details because it said the charge was £0 so I did not authorise them to take a penny from my account. This particular site is being investigated by the national intelligence office due to the nature of information which has been gathered and due the fact that they have lied about the amount of money being debited. To all those saying I should have known it was not legal. I didn't know it was an Ad fair point but it was realistic enough to have me believe it was a gov.uk site 

There is no such body as the "national intelligence office". The US has the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, maybe you mean that? The UK has the National Security Secretariat / JIO plus bodies like MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. No these groups are not investigating this site (and even if they were you wouldn't know about it).

user1977

HayleyD83 said:

AdrianC said:

HayleyD83 said:

macman said:

It's 100% legal and it's not a scam. You engaged a third party to process your change of address and willingly paid £80 for them to do it for you, when the direct service is free.
The commercial listing has 'Ad' against it and is a .co.uk address. The .gov.uk one is the third one down on the search page.
If it's any consolation, this comes up most weeks.

Actually no I didn't - I only entered my payment details because it said the charge was £0 so I did not authorise them to take a penny from my account. This particular site is being investigated by the national intelligence office due to the nature of information which has been gathered and due the fact that they have lied about the amount of money being debited. To all those saying I should have known it was not legal. I didn't know it was an Ad fair point but it was realistic enough to have me believe it was a gov.uk site 

Which site is it?

I am also far less concerned about the money as I am the fact that they have access to enough of my information to cause serious damage 

But you have absolutely no reason to believe they're going to "cause serious damage" - they have the information they need in order to do the task you've asked them to do (and get paid for it), the same as everybody else you deal with online.

macman

Why would you enter your credit card details into a site which you believed was run by the DVLA and for a service you understood to be free of charge?

HayleyD83

boobyd said:

Anyway I'm not here to argue with anyone I have better uses for my time!
Like reading any form that requires any personel or financial details 😁.

Or going out of my way to make someone feel even more rubbish than they already do. What a sad little existence you must lead..

sheramber

if you did a chargeback then the company have 45 days to dispute  the refund and the money can be taken back .

user1977

sheramber said:

if you did a chargeback then the company have 45 days to dispute  the refund and the money can be taken back .

But they could quite validly dispute it by pointing out that they've carried out the service they were paid to do.

born_again

user1977 said:

sheramber said:

if you did a chargeback then the company have 45 days to dispute  the refund and the money can be taken back .

But they could quite validly dispute it by pointing out that they've carried out the service they were paid to do.

Is that not exactly what @sheramber said?

amourgirl

hi

i have just fallen foul to this. Having renewed my driving licence through what I thought was DVLA and inadvertently signing up to a membership of £39 a month to remind me when my licence needs renewing again - in 10 years !!! 

Anyway I was read this post I noticed OP saying exact same thing as myself. That the website looked exactly like dvla. I couldn’t understand how I would fall for it otherwise. 

I clicked on the links provided here and yes sure enough those links went to a 3rd party site 
so I turned if my WiFi opened chrome incognito and pasted the link in there instead and low and behold… 
Granted the website name is not a gov.uk one but I think it’s obviously designed to make you think you are using an official site.
 A reputable company would not need to do this. I was so angry at myself for falling for it, I’m normally so vigilant but I wanted to come on here and share this because it does help explain a few things.

Chrome icognito

Meanwhile back in safari ….