Action Fraud warns of TV Licencing scam emails
Action Fraud has received 6,307 reports in a two-week period relating to fraudulent emails impersonating TV Licence.
Reports led to the removal of 268,000 scam sites.
The dodgy emails typically tell you that your TV Licence is about to expire or that there was an issue with your latest payment and include links to copycat websites to steal your personal data.
Which? has previously warned about fraudsters sending TV Licence emails. TV Licensing sends its emails from donotreply@tvlicensing.co.uk or donotreply@spp.tvlicensing.co.uk.
Scam emails should be forwarded to report@phishing.gov.uk and websites to the National Cyber Security Centre.
Bank impersonation texts
Scam texts sent from random mobile numbers attempt to hurry you into following malicious links.
The messages, which tell you a transaction has been attempted on your account or a new card has been set up, include dodgy links to follow if ‘this wasn’t you’.
You can forward suspicious text messages to 7726 to report them and websites to the National Cyber Security Centre.
For all the latest scam alerts please see the Which? website:
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/the-latest-scam-alerts-from-which-aBRLy2b02WkC