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Tv Licensing Renewal
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Just to let you know I've just received what looks like a very genuine email telling me I need to renew my TV licence.Fortunately I knew it must be wrong because I only re- mewed it a few months ago. I hovered over the name of the sender and it said TV Licensing so I was confused by this as usually it will give a strange email address but it looked absolutely genuine, so I phoned them to ask why were they sending me a reminder and I was asked to check if the License number was the same as mine, and of course it wasn't. So just a heads up for those of you that receive your reminder is to check that the licence number on your reminder is the same as the one on your licence.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.That's what I said to them Bobbi but I have heard of people who work for some of the companies who get your email address and sell it on although the company probably won't admit to that.I have had emails telling me they know my password , (not TV Licencing ) but although they have the main part of it, they don't know the numbers I always put with my password. So there's another heads up, always put a number or character in your passwords.
It probably is Bobbi but it's finding the ones who are doing it. I asked if they have a phishing address I could forward the email too but she just said No, it's alright, we know about these scams! If they encouraged people to send them on, like my bank does, they might have a better idea of how to tackle the problem and how big the problem is.
ummmm a lot of companies are now trying to go paperless and i agree with it sometimes. I could also pay by direct debit, but I'm one of those people who are not keen on that, so this i why I do it on the internet. The thing it though, if you knew that your licence was about to expire, the chances are, a lot of people would pay it, but because I only recently renewed mine, I knew it must be wrong.