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Got a very rancid scam text just now which I’ve pasted below. Warn your friends and family to look out for crap like this. It’s all fake.

The winter heating subsidy benefit plan provided by the government reminds you:
November is about to begin the severe cold period of this winter. The local council will decide to issue you a winter heating subsidy. If you can receive our information to prove that you meet the conditions for receiving it, there is no age limit for this subsidy plan. You can apply in the link Once you apply, we will review and issue it as soon as possible without affecting your receipt of other benefits.

<scammy url>
Thank you for your support to the UK Government.

@FreakyFwoof I've never understood how these people can set up webforms to capture all sorts of data, make sites look as official as possible by scraping logos and designing cunningly similar subdomains to the real gov ones, even putting genuine contact links at the bottoms of emails and such.

And then writing things like 'provided by the government reminds you'. Which is just not phrasing that we use, you know?

Andre Louis

@cachondo You forgot:
'Thank you for your support to the UK Government.'

@FreakyFwoof yeah, same sort of thing. Just the ... not incorrect english by the book, perhaps, but ... meh. I can't say what I'm trying to say

@FreakyFwoof @cachondo a lot of this is intentional apparently, it's a way to filter out the people who are unlikely to get scammed very early on.