By changing the address on my driving licence, I was somehow signed up to something that began charging my credit card £39 a month and was going to carry on charging for ever.
It was Barclaycard that spotted it and warned me it was a ‘scam’ in a text alert. Had I really agreed to a recurring payment to a company called British Drive?
I had no idea what British Drive was, and at first suspected it was an insurance policy, or the firm that organised my recent speeding course.
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