{"id":4919,"date":"2011-02-01T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2011-02-01T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:12:42","slug":"dsa-warns-of-dvla-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4919","title":{"rendered":"DSA Warns Of DVLA Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A DSA email alert:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>DVLA scam email warning<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Watch out for emails claiming to be from DVLA asking you to verify your driving licence details via an online link \u2013 it&#8217;s a scam. DVLA has not sent any such email, so if you get one delete it immediately. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Scam phishing email <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">The email appears to be an attempt to trick drivers into providing personal details. If you get the email below, do not respond to it and delete it immediately. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">This warning has also been published on the Directgov website: <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">From: DVLA  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">Subject: Update Your License Details  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">We are currrently upgrading our database and all drivers are required to update and verify there driver&#8217;s license details.To complete your license verification with us, you are required to fill out the form in the link below.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">{Fake link}  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">Drivers that refuses to upgrade his or her details within two weeks of receiving this verification email will lose his or her driver&#8217;s License and will have to take a fresh driving test.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">We sincerely apologise for any inconviniences this might have caused you.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">Thank you for your co-operation.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">(c) Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Swansea SA6 7JL  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s&#160;amazing how easily people&#160;fall for these things.&#160;Especially when the phishing email has spelling and grammatical errors in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DSA email alert: DVLA scam email warning Watch out for emails claiming to be from DVLA asking you to verify your driving licence details via an online link \u2013 it&#8217;s a scam. DVLA has not sent any such email, so if you get one delete it immediately. Scam phishing email The email appears to [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related"],"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\/4919","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=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}