My wife got an email from DVLC saying her tax on the car had run out and that she should get it as soon as possible. Clicking the link on the page she was taken to the site to input all the deatils...it was only when, after putting in her card details, it requested the sort code and bank account number that she stopped, even then she wasn't sure if she had actually pressed the send button, so she called the bank and got the card replaced and they told her that nothing had gone through the account.
I then reminded her not to click any link in any email whatsoever, always use the link saved in favorites (US spelling) or go on to Google and search for the site (then you have to be a little careful too). I also reminded her that she would have got a letter reminding her the tax needed renewing.
We are also getting phone calls at the moment tell us that there has been fraudulent transactions on our bank account, it goes on to say that bailiffs have been instructed to recover goods to the value of the amount and that I should press 1 in order to get this resolved.
As has been mentioned, the senior to us people who maybe have just taken the steps into the digital age are the ones who are most likely to get stung by these hateful people...note that I've kept that clean....as they are more trusting and don't have the knowledge most of us do.
I have to say that I have on occasion let a scam caller at the other end carry on and I pretended to follow instructions only to pretend during the process that "I don't know what that means" or "how do you do that" in the end they give up and ring off....I never press buttons to talk to anyone though, apart from the answer the phone of course
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