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Title: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: Wittsend on Apr 15, 2024, 11:21 AM
Scam coming round again - I've had a few over the past week  :ranting

Ignore, DELETE
DVLA never ask for your details like this  :shakinghead

I had to look twice before seeing it was a scam.

 :scam  :scam  :scam

Title: Re: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: Chris866 on Apr 15, 2024, 01:09 PM
Thanks Alan, good to be aware of such scams
Title: Re: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: diffwhine on Apr 15, 2024, 01:38 PM
Getting bored of lowlife doing this sort of thing. I'm advocating a shoot to kill policy. If they are overseas, I propose a pre-emptive inter continental ballistic missile strike.
Title: Re: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: Ken on Apr 15, 2024, 05:18 PM
Same should apply to politicians, I'm for Tudor style politics, if you do well you end up as Lord muck, if you cock up you're executed .
Title: Re: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: Theshed on Apr 15, 2024, 06:31 PM
Thanks for the heads up.
But the 'best regards' sign off is far to polite for DVLA  😁
Title: Re: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: Dopey on Apr 17, 2024, 02:52 PM
To, "Alan" so your now on first name terms with them now? lol
Title: Re: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: fv1620 on Apr 17, 2024, 03:34 PM
Another giveaway is their reference to "motoring license" which should really be "driving licence".
Title: Re: DVLA - SCAM
Post by: w3526602 on Apr 22, 2024, 01:41 PM
Hi.

In the early days at DVLC. a letter was received at DVLC .....

Dear Sir,  Your computer is sick. I hope it dies. XXX.

In the early 1970s, our IT staff used to take a "lot of stick" from commercial programmers, when attending commercial seminars. It was great fun asking the size of the "their" enterprise, then mentioning that DVL's computer was only second in size to that of the US Treasury.

My own "newbie" program, ran to 2000 lines of COBOL. I waa given the brief, and left to get on with it ... my "manager" was too busy dealing with Masterict (sp?) compatibility.

I forced the program to GO TO DUMP if if it "looped" more than 100 times, and print the cause of it looping. Much easier than searching through a couple of hundred pages of print-out.

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