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The 8 On Your Side team is following the most common type of scam in the country right now: text messages and emails with dangerous links in them.

The News 8 On Your Side team has a closer look at the flood of scam text messages viewers are reporting.

Don't fall for the latest hoax on the rise this Christmas.

And this year has already seen ten times that amount. our consumer affairs correspondent, colletta smith, has the story. tis the season for gifts, last—minute purchases and late deliveries. the text arrives, you scan the message and click the link, except it's not from royal mail or amazon or dpd. it's a scam and you've just popped in your address. the thing about this time of year is that so many of us are still waiting for those last—minute presents to be delivered, the final parcels still to arrive at the door. so when we do get one of those messages, it's all too easy to just click on ...

We've had years of advice to be suspicious of e—mails, but everyone is more likely to fall for a scam text. we trust them more and respond quicker. the pressure to get our presents means we are easy prey for 500,000 parcel scams this week. messages saying, "you missed your parcel delivery, you haven't paid enough postage, you need to pay customs, stuff like that. that is ten times more than this time last year. royal mail say it's easy to check whether the message really is from them. if we ever send a message like that, we will always put something through the door. we love putting things t...