tdp_org,
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🚨 **UK TV Licensing scam! **🚨

I just recieved this scam email purporting to be a TV Licensing renewal reminder. It's reasonably well done except for:

  1. The sender email address
  2. The trademark symbol - AFAIK that's never used by TVL

I believe they're using the data from the People's Energy data breach as the email address they sent this to used the unique plus alias I used on my account with PE.

The "sign in" link goes to an AWS S3 hosted file BTW.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55350995

markwalker,
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@tdp_org A great reminder as to why plus addressing is a great tool!

tdp_org,
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@markwalker Yep, and it works with more email services than you might think...just wish more websites/services would support them.

markwalker,
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@tdp_org Yeah there's little worse than signing up to something you have a feeling is really going to need it, then finding their validator doesn't think + is a valid email character 🤦‍♂️

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