Phishing is the fraudulent practice of scammers sending emails or text messages pretending to be from legitimate organisations in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords, bank details or credit/debit card numbers. The most common scam that is used is fraudsters pretending to be TV Licensing is that they will offer people a refund or a cheaper license. However, TV License reiterates that they will never do this unless a person is contacting them and they are replying to the person.
On its website, TV Licencing has highlighted a number of ways that people can use to verify whether a text message is genuine or a scam.
The first step is to check the sender. Scammers hide their real emails but a person can check what the real email is, it is usually between the “<->” symbols.
Scammers will use different variations and spellings of TV Licensing in their emails by adding full stops and hyphens in odd places.
The email addresses used by TV Licensing are “donotreply@spp.tvlicensing.co.uk”, “donotreply@tvlicensing.co.uk” and “noreply@paypoint.com” if you are using the TVL pay app.
They also state that the text messages sent by the body will be listed as being from TV Licensing, TVLSPP or TVLPay.
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The next step is to check what is being asked as scammers often tell a person that there is a problem with their account or password. They…
