DVLA: tips to stay safe online

Advice on how to avoid becoming a target for online fraudsters

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As an operator of heavy goods or public service vehicles, you’ll already know the importance of security when it comes your vehicles and what you carry in them.

However, online security may not be an obvious concern to everyone.

With social media being a big part of everyone’s lives nowadays, including professional drivers, the need to be vigilant is more important than ever.

Images of personal information like licence and vehicle documents could be invaluable to someone looking to commit fraud.

That’s why the DVLA has provided some tips to help motorists stay safe online. They received over 1000 reports of online scams in the last 3 of 2018.

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