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How to make sure you don't fall for the latest parcel-fee sc
How to make sure you don't fall for the latest parcel-fee sc
How to make sure you don't fall for the latest parcel-fee scam
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text arrives claiming to be from DHL or Hermes: “Your package has a £1.45 shipping fee”. It invites you to click on a link to pay, warning that the package “will be returned to the sender if unpaid”. If you click through you are invited to enter your bank details into a fake website. Your data can then be sold on to other criminals, or used as a basis for more elaborate scams, such as fake phone calls from “the bank”.
It’s not just texts, reports Grace Gausden on This is Money. Another variant of the scam takes the form of an email purporting to be from the Post Office. Again, the victim is asked to click on a link to pay a fee to “release items” for delivery. It can be hard to separate the real from the fake. Genuine courier firms such as UPS really have been charging surprise shipping fees of late. Royal Mail says that “we would not request payment by email or text”. In cases “where a customs fee is due… we would… leave a grey card telling customers that there’s a fee to pay before we can release the item”.
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