Overview
- Consumer advocates report a new email campaign posing as the Beitragsservice that claims a switch to digital notices and urges a next‑day bank transfer.
- The messages list a specific IBAN and promise a price cut if people prepay a half year or a full year, which is meant to push quick payments.
- Tell‑tale signs include a generic greeting, a dubious sender address, the same contribution number reused across emails, and urgent payment demands.
- Recipients are advised not to reply or pay, to delete the emails, and to check any real bills only through the official Beitragsservice website or contact points.
- The broadcast fee is set at €18.36 per month per household with fixed quarterly, semiannual, or annual options, and the real service does not offer discounts or ask for direct transfers by email.