Another Scam - Car road tax

[monabri]

Driver Vehicle and Standards Agency ! (what happend to DVLA?)

email addressed to "me"

Dear "Taxpayer" ?

Vehicle registration ?

Stuff highlighted in yellow.

I'd better get my credit card out...

[Mike4]

Send the £80 to me and I'll sort it out for you. Save you the trouble....

[pje16]

From March 2022
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk ... x-23390585

[88V8]

Driver Vehicle and Standards Agency ! (what happend to DVLA?)

email addressed to "me"...

That's been going on a years or three. Presumably a hack of the DVLA database.

For some reason I never get one for my classic cars where the tax rate is Nil

V8

[richfool]

You would think that the scammers would get their English grammar correct, if they hope to be taken seriously.

I also noticed a missed r in the first line of the first paragraph, "about you latest payment for your vehicle ....", as well as those highlighted.

[pje16]

You would think that the scammers would get their English grammar correct, if they hope to be taken seriously.

I take the view that because of what they do they are pretty thick
thankfully they get things wrong, making it easy to spot

[Mike4]

You would think that the scammers would get their English grammar correct, if they hope to be taken seriously.

I take the view that because of what they do they are pretty thick
thankfully they get things wrong, making it easy to spot

They can't be that stupid. They can work a bulk mailer after all.

It might be a double-think. Send out loads of poorly drafted scam mails to get people confident they can easily spot them, then bung out a really big mailing beautifully crafted with no spelling, grammar or drafting errors whatsoever, and clean up!

[staffordian]

Looks perfectly genuine to me.

I think the problem is simply a poor translation from the original Welsh.

[pje16]

It might be a double-think. Send out loads of poorly drafted scam mails to get people confident they can easily spot them, then bung out a really big mailing beautifully crafted with no spelling, grammar or drafting errors whatsoever, and clean up!

Looking for new job Mike
(consultancy rates of course)

[didds]

Has to be a scam.

Road tax was abolished in 1937.

[richfool]

You would think that the scammers would get their English grammar correct, if they hope to be taken seriously.

I take the view that because of what they do they are pretty thick
thankfully they get things wrong, making it easy to spot

They can't be that stupid. They can work a bulk mailer after all.

It might be a double-think. Send out loads of poorly drafted scam mails to get people confident they can easily spot them, then bung out a really big mailing beautifully crafted with no spelling, grammar or drafting errors whatsoever, and clean up!

As something of an aside, though related, interestingly, I received a text message today to my mobile phone, purporting to be from DPD, saying that they had been unable to despatch a delivery to me and to go to the link supplied. I am expecting nothing and have nothing on order. So ignored it. Within half an hour my wife received the same text message to her mobile phone, and she similarly is expecting nothing. It's interesting that her phone number is about 100 numbers after mine, numerically, which left me thinking they must be working their way through a list of telephone number in numerical order.