Being waiting for the reception of a package, because you have made a purchase through an online store or an app such as Vinned or Wallapop, in which users sell second -hand products, it is something very common, a situation in which it can be found Anyone even several times a month.
This circumstance is also exploited by cybercriminals, who are looking for any excuse to get personal data of users or even obtain important sums of money. In this sense, in recent weeks a new scam is being popularized, both by email and online, in which a message is sent by passing through a logísitic company or parcel.
Eye with this type of messages, which indicate that the package has not been delivered and in which a link is included that, of course, redirects to a fraudulent web page in which the introduction of sensitive information is requested. However, its appearance is usually legitimate, as it mimics the website of the parcel service.
Anyway, there are usually details that show that it is a scam. For example, in this email that mimics a communication of the GLS parcel service and to which thirteen access, the logo and typography that is used is not that of the company.
In these emails, it is sometimes indicated that the delivery address is incomplete. Grammatical wrongs are also usually committed or even complete phrases are included in other languages, such as English. All these details must be taken into account and should serve to alert the user to the scam attempt.
In the same way, it should be distrusted if a shipping number is not included that identifies the package. And if it includes, it is best to go to the official website of the messaging to enter the number directly in the section that allows the shipment to be traced. Also in Telegram there is a bot that allows to track packages and that could be used. If it is a scam, that shipping number may not exist, and if it did, it will not correspond to the user address.
Moreover, money is requested. A very common scam is to indicate that the package has been retained in customs and request a small amount of money by passing the postal service. There are many users who, having to pay only one or two euros, decide to make the fertilizer to see if they recover that “supposedly retained” package. It goes without saying that they will not receive the shipment and will only be thickening the bank account of the scammers.
Thus, if you receive a message – by SMS or email – in which you are informed of the suspended delivery of a package, distrust, even if you are waiting for the reception of one. Check the monitoring code on the official website of the Logistics Service and not proportions Personal information through the link that has been that supposed parcel company.