Security News > 2021 > July > Home delivery scams get smarter – don’t get caught out

We've written several times before about home delivery scams, where cybercriminals take advantage of our ever-increasing use of online ordering combined with to-the-doorstep delivery.

Over the past year or so, we've noticed what we must grudgingly admit is a gradual improvement in believability on the part of the scammers, with the criminals apparently improving their visual material, their spelling, their grammar and what you might call the general tenor of their fake websites.

We'll let the scam sequence speak for itself below, and we think you'll agree that this one has far fewer mistakes and obvious telltale signs than many of the delivery scams we've described before.

The crooks in this scam have taken the soft-and-gentle approach of simply pretending everything worked out fine, giving them a full day to evade suspicion until you wonder what happened to the delivery and take steps to find out.

You'll never get caught out by fake links if you never use in-message links at all! Those few seconds are a small price to pay for not paying the large price of handing over your personal data to cybercriminals.

If you get as far entering any banking data into a fake pay page and then realise it's a scam, call your bank's fraud reporting number at once.

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