Another Scam?

[magpies]

Just received this email

From: G0vUk.91847<[e-mail]>
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To : You
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Energy Bill

We are pleased to inform you that you are eligible to receive a £350 discount under the Energy Bill Support Scheme.

To complete your application and secure your rebate, please provide the following details:

Your full name, phone number, and address
Your date of birth
Your debit or credit card details (to receive the rebate)
Apply Now

Best regards,
The Energy Bill

[Funk]

Yes.

[Vsix and Vtec]

I don't think the question mark is entirely necessary.

I would hope nobody falls for this, but you never know.

ET; the AC.KR email address is a Korean academic address, in the same way we use AC.UK

Edited by Vsix and Vtec on Thursday 13th February 13:44

[vikingaero]

Easy one:
Can't even get .Gov email address correct
Email is from Kyungpook National University using a .ac email address from Korea.

Now why would someone from Korea want your Name, Address, DOV and card details? Hmmmmm

[davek_964]

Got exactly the same this morning - albeit with a different long number. Guess I'm on the same spammer list as the OP!

I have the advantage that I don't pay any energy bills, so immediately recognised it as a scam. Otherwise, the sophistication might have got past me.

[davek_964]

I had a new one this morning :

Phone call - which immediately played an automated message from somebody saying that they were from Indeed, and would like me to add their number to WhatsApp to discuss a job with me.

Er...... no thanks!

[blueb10]

I had a new one recently. Kept getting calls from numbers i don't recognise, found them to be from some company in Scotland and then letters started arriving from the same company. The letters state that they are acting on behalf of HMRC and that i have an outstanding tax bill. This is certainly news to me, HMRC have not contacted me about this.
As far as i am aware, HMRC only contact people directly by post, if this has changed and this company are acting on their behalf, why are they giving my details to a third party without my permission? Does data protection not mean anything to these people?
As an aside, how are another set of parasites such as "parking eye" able to request and receive details from the DVLA? I am pretty sure i cannot obtain someones name and address from a reg number even if i was to pay.

[WrekinCrew]

blueb10 said:

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As an aside, how are another set of parasites such as "parking eye" able to request and receive details from the DVLA? I am pretty sure i cannot obtain someones name and address from a reg number even if i was to pay.

https://kadoe.co.uk

[Motorman74]

I've had a couple of variations of a new (to me at least) one recently.

Email from paypal - the email address is spoofed as from paypal - it appears to have come from [e-mail]

All the links in the mail are genuine paypal links - they obviously won't work, but that are all links to paypal.com - and the mail basically leads you to call a number, which definitely isn't paypal

The bit that makes it totally obvious that it's a scam is the name of the paypal account is random and the mail is obviously bulk sent to people on blind cc.

One of them claimed that the transaction has been hidden and would not be visible in your account, and they were both relating to payments of several hundred dollars.

I guess the anti-phishing message is getting through and some scammers are trying to adapt.

[blueb10]

WrekinCrew said:

https://kadoe.co.uk

Thanks for the link but, my question still stands. I, as an individual cannot access that information and i am sure that they would cite data protection rules would apply, yet, they allow some utter parasites access to potentially sensitive information.

[WrekinCrew]

blueb10 said:

WrekinCrew said:

https://kadoe.co.uk

Thanks for the link but, my question still stands. I, as an individual cannot access that information and i am sure that they would cite data protection rules would apply, yet, they allow some utter parasites access to potentially sensitive information.

You'd have to go back to clamping or pay on entry/exit barriers with the inevitable queues if they have no way to identify non-payers.
Yes it's far from perfect but what's the alternative?

[Road2Ruin]

blueb10 said:

Thanks for the link but, my question still stands. I, as an individual cannot access that information and i am sure that they would cite data protection rules would apply, yet, they allow some utter parasites access to potentially sensitive information.

'Utter parasites' you say. Maybe the people's data they are requesting should pay for their parking....maybe.