Texts From The NHS
I’ve just seen this on Facebook. Thanks to reader Jane Lauppen.
Text arrives on mobile phone 10 past 10 at night from NHS England,threatening if there is no reply, to de-register the recipient from their GP’s surgery.
As usual corporate , profit led organisations behaving like total bullies who do not care about the affect their demands,late at night or randomly sent through the post by day have on the recipient.
This was discussed today on BBC Lunchtime with Laurence with callers anxious to discover more about these letters, presented in similar format to a scammer attempting to elicit data.
This is terrible. I do hope it’s a scam.
By the way, Lunchtime With Laurence on BBC Radio Cornwall is a programme I have liked for quite some time. It often discusses issues of interest on health and/or disability.
Updated: Jane Lauppen has just confirmed that this has been established NOT to be a scam. I now think it should be covered widely and stopped from happening. It is awful and causes great stress to patients and carers.
Same Difference 
There’s a spate of spoof NHS emails and texts going around currently. Delete them don’t reply.
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You have to ask yourself: Why would an organisation that has previously always written to you suddenly send you an email? At after 10pm?
Check the spelling; many of these texts will use American English (words such as Center and Color are a dead giveaway). The NHS, for all its faults will ALWAYS use BRITISH English spellings.
I suspect this is a Phishing Scam , intended to panic you into revealing personal information such as National Insurance or NHS Number that could be of use to criminals attempting Identity theft.
As Celia pointed out. Don’t reply – If you do, this shows the scammers that it’s a legitimate mobile number which can be sold to spammers
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It’s ENGLISH English Colin 🙂
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valid point 😉
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Reblogged this on Benefit tales.
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