{"id":49897,"date":"2014-11-07T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=83d385782890c5639be79fc73b991468"},"modified":"2015-06-26T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:01:20","slug":"news-story-motorists-warned-about-scam-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49897","title":{"rendered":"News story: Motorists warned about scam emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> News article updated to give information about the latest email scam to target DVLA customers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We\u2019re aware that some members of the public have received emails claiming to be from <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr> confirming Direct Debit payment for a vehicle. The email has a Word document attachment that contains a virus.<\/p>\n<p>We do not send Word documents when confirming Direct Debit payments and we strongly advise anyone who receives one of these or any similar email not to open the Word document and delete the email.<\/p>\n<p>The government, led by Cabinet Office\u2019s Government Digital Service (<abbr title=\"Government Digital Service\">GDS<\/abbr>), will continue to investigate reports of organisations which may be actively misleading users about their services or acting illegally, taking swift action when necessary. By using the online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/browse\/driving\/driving-licences\">driving licence<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/browse\/driving\/car-tax-discs\">vehicle tax<\/a> transactions on GOV.UK you can be sure that you are dealing directly with <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the online driving licence and vehicle tax services in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/browse\/driving\/driving-licences\">driving licence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/browse\/driving\/car-tax-discs\">vehicle tax<\/a>sections of GOV.UK.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how to report internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing\">scams and phishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVLA warns the public of scam emails that include a virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58449,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897\/revisions\/58449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}