UK households warned 'look out' as millions await letters on payments

The Warm Home Discount is a legitimate programme that will assist more than six million homes this winter (Image: coldsnowstorm via Getty Images)

Millions of households are being warned to stay vigilant amid a spike in fraudulent messages targeting this winter's £150 Warm Home Discount programme. MoneySavingExpert.com – established by Martin Lewis – reports that con artists are increasingly dispatching texts, emails and phone calls purporting to offer the £150 reduction, attempting to dupe households into surrendering banking and personal information.

The Warm Home Discount letters sent to UK homes are legitimate and will assist over six million homes this winter. However, criminals are exploiting the official programme as a front to prey upon vulnerable people and pensioners strugglin