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Germanshepherdsmum Tue 09-Jan-24 14:28:24

We pay for our licence by direct debit. It’s actually in my husband’s name. Yesterday I received an email from ‘TV Licensing’ starting ‘Hi [my email address]’ and going on to say that the direct debit for my tv license (sic) would expire that evening and inviting me to click on a link to set up a new D.D. Deleted.

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halfpint1 Tue 09-Jan-24 14:32:00

We don't pay a TV licence in France anymore, just saying.

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BigBertha1 Tue 09-Jan-24 14:35:15

Sounds like a scam.

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shysal Tue 09-Jan-24 14:44:13

I have received similar scam emails a few times. I pay by Direct debit so I know I do not owe money.
www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/scams-fraud/tv-licence-scams/

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MerylStreep Tue 09-Jan-24 14:47:52

Scam alert !!!!!

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midgey Tue 09-Jan-24 14:51:09

As the saying goes…..out of the blue Don’t follow it through!

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Georgesgran Tue 09-Jan-24 15:12:50

I’m sure GSM wouldn’t be taken in! Sadly, some are - these scammers never give up, but get more cunning and believable.

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Germanshepherdsmum Tue 09-Jan-24 15:15:26

I wasn’t taken in, but it would be very easy for someone to believe - and presumably to set up a D.D. in favour of the scammer. What alerted me straight away was the mis-spelling of licence.

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nexus63 Tue 09-Jan-24 15:15:58

i don't have a tv licence.

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welbeck Tue 09-Jan-24 16:52:16

do direct debits expire ?
i thought they just keep rolling along, if you don't interfere with them.

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Septimia Tue 09-Jan-24 16:53:25

It is a scam. I've had them before. We pay by direct debit, too, and the last one of these emails that I received told me that they couldn't get the DD from my account.

I forward anything like this to [email protected]

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Germanshepherdsmum Tue 09-Jan-24 16:57:54

No they just keep going welbeck. The inference with this scam was that ‘they’ had had a problem with collecting it, which would happen if there was insufficient money in your account.

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