{"id":1016,"date":"2020-06-29T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2020-07-02T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T18:07:11","slug":"tv-licensing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/tv-licensing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Licencing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following has been received from TV Licensing:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are very aware that TVL is high on the scammers hit list.  In May, Action Fraud received over 260 reports of coronavirus related TV Licensing emails.  There has been a TVL email scam specifically about coronavirus going around which says that the customer is eligible for a personalised offer of six months free because of COVID.<br><br>We want to protect our customers, so have been working on developing more detailed advice and also working with National Cyber Security Centre \u2013 people are asked to send scam emails to&nbsp;<a>report@phishing.gov.uk<\/a>&nbsp;as a way of NCSC building a better picture of what\u2019s out there.<br><br>As mentioned, the attached checklist is a good guide to help service users become aware of TVL scams and begin to take action against them via the following steps:<br><br><strong>STOP<\/strong>&nbsp;Scammers will attempt to trick you into giving away your personal or bank details. So always be wary of letters, emails, texts or phone calls that promise you money or a refund&nbsp;<br><br><strong>CHECK<\/strong>&nbsp;Sender, spelling and grammar, your licence number, your name<br><br><strong>ASK<\/strong>&nbsp;If you\u2019re ever unsure about a communication you\u2019ve received, it\u2019s always best to ask someone \u2013 perhaps a friend or trusted advisor.  Or you can contact us via&nbsp;<a>www.tvl.co.uk\/scams<\/a>&nbsp;or call us.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TVL_Spot-the-Scammers-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1017\" width=\"641\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TVL_Spot-the-Scammers-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TVL_Spot-the-Scammers-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TVL_Spot-the-Scammers-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TVL_Spot-the-Scammers-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TVL_Spot-the-Scammers-2048x1448.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TVL_Spot-the-Scammers-424x300.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following has been received from TV Licensing:- We are very aware that TVL is high on the scammers hit list. In May, Action Fraud received over 260 reports of coronavirus related TV Licensing emails. There has been a TVL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/tv-licensing-scam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferryfm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}