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Nhs Scam?
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I just received an email from [email protected] to book a date for my jab. Isn't this a little strange? Surely my GP should be contacting me.
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Part of the wording in mine
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As part of the government’s coordinated response to Coronavirus, NHS is performing selections for coronavirus vaccination on the basis of family genetics and medical history.
You have been selected to receive a Coronavirus Vaccination
Use this service to confirm/reject your coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination://
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As part of the government’s coordinated response to Coronavirus, NHS is performing selections for coronavirus vaccination on the basis of family genetics and medical history.
You have been selected to receive a Coronavirus Vaccination
Use this service to confirm/reject your coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination://
No, that's normal. There are 2 ways of contacting people - through their GP hub and/or the national programme. We were phoned by a real person to be vaccinated at our local-ish GP hub last week and then received a letter 2 days later inviting us to book via the national system but told to ignore letter if we'd already been offered a vaccine elsewhere. We wen to the GP hub last Saturday. No problem.
My (perfectly genuine) text, inviting me to book a date and time for my Covid jab, came from 'NHS-NoReply' and included a weblink to 'www.my-healthbook.co.uk/booking'(with a personal reference number added to it).
So texts from an NHS source (rather than from a GP directly) aren't necessarily scams. However the 'government-co.uk' in your text does look dodgy to me, particularly as a quick search shows that no such web domain has ever been registered.
(With my typical luck, I booked an appointment for 7.15pm yesterday but then got a text at 4.15pm apologising that the centre had been closed early due to heavy snow. So I've still not had my jab!)
So texts from an NHS source (rather than from a GP directly) aren't necessarily scams. However the 'government-co.uk' in your text does look dodgy to me, particularly as a quick search shows that no such web domain has ever been registered.
(With my typical luck, I booked an appointment for 7.15pm yesterday but then got a text at 4.15pm apologising that the centre had been closed early due to heavy snow. So I've still not had my jab!)
^^^ Oops! I also missed out on the 'email' reference. I was asked for my email address when I booked my appointment (with confirmation coming both by text and by email) but the original communication came only by text.
As I wrote above though, any message that refers to a non-existent web domain is likely to be dodgy!
As I wrote above though, any message that refers to a non-existent web domain is likely to be dodgy!
[email protected] uk
Was the address in the email.
Was the address in the email.
'gov-notifications.co.uk' is also a domain name that's never been registered. (Any address, genuine or false, can be entered into the 'from' or 'return to' field in an email).
Any genuine email from the NHS would have '.nhs.uk', or possibly '.gov.uk', in the address. (It could also have the address of a third-party provider, such as 'my-healthbook.co.uk', who is acting on behalf on an NHS provider, but it certainly wouldn't show an entirely fake domain name).
Any genuine email from the NHS would have '.nhs.uk', or possibly '.gov.uk', in the address. (It could also have the address of a third-party provider, such as 'my-healthbook.co.uk', who is acting on behalf on an NHS provider, but it certainly wouldn't show an entirely fake domain name).
