Nhs Scam?

[piggynose]

I just received an email from [email protected] to book a date for my jab. Isn't this a little strange? Surely my GP should be contacting me.

[Mamyalynne]

I had one the other day and thought it looked suspicious.

I Googled some of the wording and it was indeed a scam.

I urge you to double check.

[bednobs]

are you in a priority group?

[woofgang]

If the email address is as you have typed it, its a fake. I think that the mega hub invitations come by letter, not email.

[Paigntonian]

Dear me. Someone's up to no good. No, it can't be for real.

[Mamyalynne]

Part of the wording in mine

//

As part of the government’s coordinated response to Coronavirus, NHS is performing selections for coronavirus vaccination on the basis of family genetics and medical history.
You have been selected to receive a Coronavirus Vaccination
Use this service to confirm/reject your coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination://

[Paigntonian]

Probably needless to say but you shouldn't call it an NHS scam.

[Eve]

https://fullfact.org/online/NHS-coronavirus-vaccine-scam/

[bhg481]

They announced at tea-time that any 70+ year olds can now book appointments if they haven't been contacted by their doctor. The email you quoted has a - sign in the middle; if you mistyped and put "-" instead of "." it could be genuine.

[Bobbisox1]

The NHS don't send emails for your vaccine , they send a letter or your doctor will ring you

[diddlydo]

No, that's normal. There are 2 ways of contacting people - through their GP hub and/or the national programme. We were phoned by a real person to be vaccinated at our local-ish GP hub last week and then received a letter 2 days later inviting us to book via the national system but told to ignore letter if we'd already been offered a vaccine elsewhere. We wen to the GP hub last Saturday. No problem.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/media/32958537/vaccine-email-scam.pdf

[Canary42]

Today I received a letter from NHS inviting me to book a date.

It includes the statement "You can choose to wait until your local GP services contact you if they haven't already". (they haven't)

[diddlydo]

Apologies - I had missed the point about being emailed as opposed to letter through post which is what we got.

[Buenchico]

My (perfectly genuine) text, inviting me to book a date and time for my Covid jab, came from 'NHS-NoReply' and included a weblink to 'www.my-healthbook.co.uk/booking'(with a personal reference number added to it).

So texts from an NHS source (rather than from a GP directly) aren't necessarily scams. However the 'government-co.uk' in your text does look dodgy to me, particularly as a quick search shows that no such web domain has ever been registered.

(With my typical luck, I booked an appointment for 7.15pm yesterday but then got a text at 4.15pm apologising that the centre had been closed early due to heavy snow. So I've still not had my jab!)

[Buenchico]

^^^ Oops! I also missed out on the 'email' reference. I was asked for my email address when I booked my appointment (with confirmation coming both by text and by email) but the original communication came only by text.

As I wrote above though, any message that refers to a non-existent web domain is likely to be dodgy!

[Hopkirk]

Are you still living in Spain, Piggy?

[piggynose]

[email protected] uk
Was the address in the email.

[piggynose]

Yes hoppy.
Coyb

[Buenchico]

'gov-notifications.co.uk' is also a domain name that's never been registered. (Any address, genuine or false, can be entered into the 'from' or 'return to' field in an email).

Any genuine email from the NHS would have '.nhs.uk', or possibly '.gov.uk', in the address. (It could also have the address of a third-party provider, such as 'my-healthbook.co.uk', who is acting on behalf on an NHS provider, but it certainly wouldn't show an entirely fake domain name).

[Hopkirk]

You would have trouble attending for an NHS jab then.