I am sure that most of you are too canny for this, but I have seen where people get scammed when the google DVLA to pay for their licences, tax, etc.
If you google “DVLA” the top site that comes up is dvla-driving-licence.co…FSvHtAodrxQAvg. This is because they pay Google for it. If you use that site they will charge you a fee of £60 or so over and above the DVLA’s own charges. There is no benefit at all from using them.
Of course the site you want is gov.uk/government/organi…censing-agency
There was a programme on Watchdog recently about these document checking websites, seems they are legal and it’s a case of buyer beware. One site on Watchdog looked identical to to the real DVLA site but was purely a mirror that actually checked nothing and charged £40 for the privilege!
There is one that dose that for Congestion Charging.TFL are
trying to get shut down.
They’re not scam sites as such.
They’re sites that feed off of the terminally bewildered, the permanently befuddled & the enduringly confused.
The sort of people that will always be paying over the odds & there’s NOTHING anyone can do to stop that.
If you steer them away from one nasty experience, they simply, stumble clumsily into yet another.