Security News > 2022 > May > Beware the Smish! Home delivery scams with a professional feel…
Home delivery scams, where the crooks falsely apologise to you for not delivering your latest parcel, have been around for years.
As we have unfortunately needed to say many times on Naked Security, these scams seem to have become steadlily more professional-looking during the pandemic, as more and more people have got into the habit of ordering deliveries for everyday shopping instead of heading into stores.
Here's a contemporary SMS-based scam that makes a good "Picture story" of how these cybercrimes unfold.
In this criminal campaign, the scammers were targeting a home delivery company in the UK called Evri.
You're going to lose your personal details to the crooks, who will probably use your card or bank account details themselves for a much more ambitious scam, or will sell them on to other crooks who specialise in that aspect of the cybercrime "Business sector".
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.