DVLA Scam.
 

Had an e-mail this morning from dvla? That they owe me £48. Deleted.

We’ve had three phone calls - obviously from another part of the world entirely- saying they are from BT or Openreach and that they are contacting me to sort out a problem with my router.

Initially I just told them to bu99er off but today I wound them up by making out I was doing as they asked. They were not happy!!

Interesting that they are coming through on various U.K. numbers - one of them was 01725 area code that is very local to us.

Any tech guys on here able to shed light on how they are doing this?

Yes also had this email. I forwarded it to dvla phising team

I thought that your original heading was referring to Road Tax.

Got one from the inland revenue yesterday asking for my credit card details to refund tax lol

With a small amount of tech, you can 'spoof' a number to make it look like it's coming from somewhere else..... or they have a VOIP (Voice over IP) setup for each area code they want to have a go at.

It's the same with emails, a little bit of work by a tech-savvy bod, and you can make it look like the email is coming from someone else.

No need for them to scam they are already making enough from us.:icon_lol:

haha makes you wonder who the real thieves are