Scams

I had an e mail yesterday from 'Car tax.GOV.Uk'
The page heading looked genuine and it stated that they could not access my monthly car tax payments.
Would i therefore re submit my bank details.
As my car tax is only £20 a year i pay it in total each January.
So it was an obvious scam.
Just be on your guard though because the site looked quite convincing.

 

There are so many of these scams. I've had several from fake, Pay Pal, TV Licensing etc etc. Perhaps it's time the government stepped in and outlawed such practices.

 

And the selling of your info

 

I think it is outlawed, but often from foreign countries and not easy to stop.

 

I had an email yesterday telling me Id failed to pay my 'fixed penalty notice' for driving in the congestion zone and so it had been doubled!! I momentarily panicked and realised seeing as my car hasn't left town for months it was probably a scam. Then I though OMG has somebody cloned my number plate??? Hovering the computer mouse over the email bar I could see it had come from a private email address so all was OK. Theses despicable people should get mandatory jail sentences.

 

The law is too soft

 

Got a message from my gp surgery telling me to download an app called, my GP, which I did about 3 months ago.
Just tried it again today and apart from a message telling me to get a flu jab there was nothing else you could do with it.
Maybe not a scam as such but a pretty pointless piece of clutter.
Uninstalled it, total waste of time.

 

I think GP surgeries were putting out this kind of stuff during the lockdown to make it look like they were still working when basically they were shut.
Mine was anyway.

 

Our doctors surgery has been open throughout the summer.
I went there for a B12 check and they'd fitted an outdoor gazebo where you waited for a nurse to come outside donned in mask and visor.
Not sure how that will work during the winter.