{"id":24127,"date":"2020-07-29T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24127"},"modified":"2022-11-23T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T16:55:59","slug":"tv-licensing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24127","title":{"rendered":"TV Licensing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 695px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 695\/751;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"TV Licensing Scam\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tvl_scam.png\" alt=\"TV Licensing Scam\" width=\"695\" height=\"751\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">Just a heads up on another silly attempt at scamming people over their TV licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get one of these at least once a year and can spot them a mile off. This one (in May) came from postmaster@kuriya.jp, which is an automatic giveaway in the first place. The second clue is in that I know our licence is up to date. The third clue is that \u2018TVLicensing\u2019 and \u2018TVLicence\u2019 have no space, whereas the <a title=\"Email security and scam advice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvlicensing.co.uk\/faqs\/FAQ288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proper TV Licensing title does<\/a>. <strong>Edit:<\/strong> I had another one in June, which I just binned, and another just now from &#8216;support@tvlicensing.co.uk.a&#8217; (see the extra &#8216;a&#8217; at the end?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TVL will always use your full name in their own emails (this one had my email address), and they will always come from donotreply@tvlicensing.co.uk or donotreply@spp.tvlicensing.co.uk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <strong>never<\/strong> click on links from emails if you are unsure of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I\u2019m wrong, then I expect a visit from the Yakuza in the near future. I\u2019m not especially worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a heads up on another silly attempt at scamming people over their TV licence. I get one of these at least once a year and can spot them a mile off. This one (in May) came from postmaster@kuriya.jp, which is an automatic giveaway in the first place. The second clue is in that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}