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whistles
whistles Online Community Member Posts: 2,074 Championing
edited April 2025 in Money and bills

DWP NOTIСE: Winter Heating Grаnt 2024/2025. Winter is coming tо аn еnd

You havе bееn offered a Wintеr Hеating Pаyment for 2024 but yоu hаvе not yеt completеd your aрplicаtion. Wintеr is coming tо an end and if you hаve not cоmplеted your аpрliсatiоn by 25 April 2025 we will assumе thаt you have fоrfeited thе allowаnсe.

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  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 2,074 Championing

    Is this genuine.

    Please do not click the link.

    I will apply if I need to using the website itself.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,031 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Hi @whistles, I don't think this is genuine. There have been a few scam texts going around over the past few months and it looks like this is probably one of them.

    I have removed the link just so nobody clicks on it by accident ☺️

  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 2,074 Championing

    Thank you.

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 8,474 Championing

    100% a scam.

  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 2,074 Championing

    It's shocking where they get your number from.

    I have just moved to independence and could have got sucked in by this

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 8,474 Championing

    Computer algorithms exist to generate phone number combinations at random then send out messages/calls. So they didn't necessarily get it from anywhere at all.

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