Security News > 2021 > September > “Back to basics” as courier scammers skip fake fees and missed deliveries
We've been warning about fake courier scams on Naked Security for many years, even before the coronavirus pandemic increased our collective reliance on home deliveries.
The scammer then pretends to be the courier company handling the "Delivery", correctly identifying the item, its value and its made-up shipping code.
Once they have you on the hook, skilled social scammers in a call centre operated by the crooks offer to "Help" you to cancel the bogus order or subscription.
A fake delivery failed and the item was returned to the depot.
These fake delivery notices typically offer to help you reschedule the missed delivery, but before you can choose a new date you usually need to login to a fake "Courier company" website, hand over credit card data, or both.
Some courier scams keep things way simpler than this, like this one we received ourselves over the weekend.