From April last year, hybrid petrol-electric cars registered between 1st March 2001 and 31st March 2017 became subject to vehicle tax of £20.00 per year. My car falls into this category and the vehicle tax on it is due for renewal by the end of this month. I received a renewal reminder by post just after Christmas and I put it to one side and put a note in my diary to renew my vehicle tax before it was due.
I was therefore somewhat surprised to receive a total of five daily email reminders from the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) to renew my vehicle tax, including a hotlink to the relevant webpage on the DVLA’s website.
Now, I’m a careful person and I am always wary about following hot links from unsolicited emails, even though they look official … and these did look very convincing. I therefore checked the email address that the emails had come from … and they were NOT from the DVLA!
If I had followed the hotlink, I would have been duped into giving my debit card details to fake website … and no doubt my bank account would have been cleared out before I realised it.
I was lucky … and decided to share this story with my regular blog readers to make sure that none of them fall for this very convincing scam.
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