Martin Lewis warns against ‘clever’ new Post Office scam: ‘Beware!’ | Personal Finance | Finance | #whatsapp | #lovescams | #phonescams


His Tweet read:  Beware. Just had a clever version of the ‘pay £1.99 for Post Office Parcel delivery’ scam text, aiming to steal bank info.” Britons flocked to the comment section of the Tweet, with some noting they had received, and almost fell for, the same scam texts.

He shared: “It’s clever because it’s morphed and is now less obvious.”

Twitter user KatieLDN noted she had received the same scam text, and almost got caught out by it.

She wrote: “I got this – off my guard at the end of a long day at work. Thankfully clocked it before I’d put card details in, but I immediately got a second scam text pretending to be from my bank. 

“So even if you realise, they’ve got a plan to try and scam you a second time as you panic!”

DONT MISS: 

The website links often look genuine and will take victims to a convincing Post Office website clone. 

These websites are created to only last a few days, this means it is not around long enough to receive enough reports to highlight to people that it is a suspicious website. 

Once on the website, the information fishing starts off innocently enough with victims being asked to enter their postcode. 

However, they are then usually asked for their full name, delivery address, email address, date of birth and mobile number. 

All of this information can be used to commit identity fraud, alongside the fact that some people will use a combination of this information to form passwords. 

It still goes further, as victims are then asked for a new delivery date and card details to cover a ‘redelivery charge’.

These charges are often small amounts like £1.10, but it’s not this that the scammers are after but all of the money in the bank account that they now have access to through their card.

Anyone who receives a scam or suspicious text can report it to 7726. 

A Post Office spokesperson, said: “People can easily be duped into believing they have received a text message purporting to be from Post Office. Cybercriminals are able to create convincing copies of our website, but, we always remind customers that Post Office will never send texts about missed parcel deliveries or unpaid fees. This is because Post Office does not deliver parcels or chase unpaid delivery fees.

“Our postmasters are on hand to provide advice to any concerned customers and we frequently run awareness campaigns on social media about the rise in delivery phishing scams so that people can understand how to identify and report any suspicious messages they receive.”





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