I’ve had an e-mail address since dial-up days which has over the years been subsumed by first Tiscali and then TalkTalk. Late last year, TalkTalk announced if you didn’t cough up for their broadband or other paid service, you’d have to pay £5/month or £50/year to keep the address. I’ve said bollocks to it and they can shove your address despite the pain involved. However, yesterday I received an e-mail purportedly from TalkTalk saying they see I’ve done nothing so they will be closing my (non existent) account and that I’m owed money so please follow this link. Yes, right ! Anyone else had a similar experience ? Andy
I had a Tiscali account but now am with Talk Talk. I haven’t received anything about this. I suggest you access the link...
Before all this Corona BS kicked off, I read that the government via OFCOM were looking to stop providers holding customers to ransom by threatening, or actually deleting email accounts unless you also took their broadband service. The claim was, it prevents users moving around to get the best deal as email addresses are viewed in the same way as phone numbers. They are in most cases a crucial link to many online services and accounts Phone numbers can be transferred from company to company and the government were saying that email addresses should be able to transfer too.
Here is a link giving more detail - its not enforced yet, but looks like it may follow https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...k-broadband-isps-over-charging-for-email.html
I believe that TalkTalk was the reason why the OFCOM review kicked off. Bunch of robbing dastids. Andy
I also have a very old legacy email which is now with TalkTalk which I use for so many things. I couldn't be bothered with all the hassle so I'm afraid I coughed the £50. I've had no emails saying I'm due anything. I also have a friend in the same position as you and he's not recieved anything either so I suspect its a scam.
Talk Talk? Weren't they the awfully nice guys who lost everyones personal info to hackers due to crap data protection?
I have told my eldest brother to stop using yahoo, after they lost ten's of millions of peoples. Private information & move over to protonmail.com (free service though you can get paid storage amounts) but he still is an ignorant twat. Anyone using a service given to you by a internet host service should do the same. Eventually you become complacent & will feel its to stressful or trumatic to contact companies/friends/subsriptions. And this is how these big companies will rince their greedy hands knowing you can't be arsed to change service providers.
Just looked into where the link in the suspect email goes and it isn’t the TalkTalk address on their web page so have reported it. Andy
