“It’s free to renew your driving licence. DVLA’s official GOV.UK website won’t request a payment from you. You should leave any website that does immediately.”
So I went to the proper GOV.UK site manually rather than using the search bar and got through it ok but it’s easy to see if you’re not on the ball how you can get seriously scammed.
The site that tried to scam me was:
https://www.vehicleonlineservices.co.uk
The address comes up high on the list even if you type GOV.UK, why are these sites allowed to exist it must be easy to shut them down?
Interesting reading https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/vehicl ... ices.co.uk
Forewarned is forearmed.