Watch out. A scam e-mail enclosing a fixed penalty notice “receipt” for non-existent offences is making the rounds in the UK, The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has warned. However, the Agency: “Never sends fixed penalty notices to customers by email”, it said.
The Agency's advice should you receive this message is not to:
“click on any links in it,
reply to the email or contact the senders in any way,
open any attachments that arrive with the email”.
Some people, ey?
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