"Limited time offer: 1 x 12 months of TV licence for 0.00 GBP.
"Your TV licence expired on [date]. Considering you have always payed (sic) your TV licence on time, we decided to offer you a whole new year of free TV."
Most people are familiar with the old adage "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is", but for whatever reason huge numbers are being drawn in by the latest TV Licensing scam email doing the rounds.
The email, which we have quoted the opening lines of, offers the lucky recipient a free TV licence as an apparent reward for them dutifully paying the fee in previous years.
We remind readers that TV Licensing is in the business of extorting money from as many people as it can, irrespective of their legal need for a TV licence.
Recent events have shown that the BBC, which is responsible for all aspects of TV Licensing, has no qualms at all about fleecing elderly pensioners and war veterans by depriving them of their over-75 TV licences from next June. TV Licensing does not, ever, under any circumstances, offer anything for free - apart from threats, lies and abysmal customer service.
There are two other signs that this email is a scam:
- It claims that the existing TV licence expires on a date that is not the last day of the month. TV licences always expire on the last day of a month.
- It contains the incorrect spelling "payed" instead of "paid". Thick as many TV Licensing communications harlots are, they can normally be trusted to apply the normal conventions of spelling, punctuation and grammar.
There are a lot of these TV Licensing scam emails doing the rounds at the moment, so please remain vigilant and cautious about submitting sensitive personal information online.
Avoid clicking on links embedded in unsolicited emails purportedly from TV Licensing. It is always safer to type the URL of the official TV Licensing website into your browser location bar.
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2 comments:
"There are a lot of these TV Licensing scam emails doing the rounds at the moment, so please remain vigilant and cautious about submitting sensitive personal information online."
And yet, they still manage the same silly mistakes, even though these things come round every few months. You'd have thought there would be at least one person who could actually get their spelling right, even if they got the date wrong, it isn't too difficult to find out that information.
Then again, we shouldn't credit these people with too much intelligence or ability to think properly, they're greedy/hungry for people's details, after all, and we all know what that kind of work ethic does to people.
Even if it was free, I wouldn't watch TV. The price is irrelevant to me.
It's the lowest form of entertainment and it's rubbish; which is where, coincidentally, their harassment letters end up.
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