Fake DPD Phishing/scam email

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I received a convincing looking (apart from the sender's email address, which ends @voo.be) fake email pretending to be from DPD today, so thought I'd warn everyone as I know people are buying gifts and essentials at this time of year. In the pre-Xmas rush it might be easy to fall for this if you're expecting a parcel to arrive.

The email contained a large DPD logo header then the following text (links removed):

Dear (my email address)

Your parcel number 8770873064553

We tried to deliver your parcel today but you weren't in or there was no safe place to leave it.

Your action is required. If this item is unclaimed by the return date, then it will be returned to sender.

The first and second delivery attempt was free of charge

To schedule a new delivery, a shipping fee must be paid.

Reschedule delivery (displayed as a clickable link)

DPD News
Designed for journalists, this news section provides a list of our recent press releases, useful information, news stories and company profile.

[ A random series of letters ]

Contact our Press Team

Thank you.
© 2020 DPD

So do be careful with ANY similar emails you get from any delivery companies or suppliers, as no doubt the scamming scum will be using any tricks possible to steal your identity and/or parcel and money!
 
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You are not alone. I had two E Mails this morning sent purportedly from Yahoo and arriving simultaneously timed at 01.10am, advising me if I wished to continue using my preferred E mail address (plusnet) I was advised to log into Yahoo. I suppose that there was a link in the body of the E mail which I did not open. I placed the cursor over the sender and the spelling of Yahoo was wrong but was included twice and had a country of origin of 'ru' which I believe is Russia. A rather crude attempt at a scam,
 
I received an automated phone call on my landline from my "internet service" (no name) saying that, due to suspicious activity on my account, my internet service was going to be suspended.
No doubt it went on with a link that allowed me to continue after a payment, but I'd already hung up by then.
That was two weeks ago and nothings happened yet...
 
I had an initially very convincing one yesterday that had the genuine look and feel of an Apple iTunes-type receipt for the purchase of a tv series for £96.99 using my Apple Id (using my old email address as a guess at my apple id). It didn't ask me to do anything directly, but implied that I needed to click on something in the email to get more details. They were obviously banking on me thinking my apple id had been hacked, so were subtly phishing to obtain my apple id and password to sell on. Fortunately I clocked it fairly quickly after looking at the underlying email address (although that was pretty convincing too) and searching on the store for said series which didn't actually exist.
 
So many of these now and as said some very convincing especially when coming on your mobile phone ... just today had a friend say she has had unauthorised Paypal payments made on her bank account so had to advise her to change passcodes and never click on links.
 
If I ever get the telephone calls I try to keep them talking for as long as possible. I play along but play stupid enough that they think they've caught one. The longer I can keep them talking the less time they're scamming someone else. 35 minutes is my record
 
I get lots of these, which look like they come from the legitimate courier companies asking me to settle invoices for various deliveries.
Nothing is spoofed the email is valid and they have a real contact name for someone at the accounts department.
the only thing that is fake is the bank account that they are asking you to pay via BACS into.
 
uptherighttree said:
If I ever get the telephone calls I try to keep them talking for as long as possible. I play along but play stupid enough that they think they've caught one. The longer I can keep them talking the less time they're scamming someone else. 35 minutes is my record
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The call I had was a pre-recorded message, so there was no possibility of engaging them in conversation.
 
That is extremely odd. I had one purporting to be from Parcel Force today with exactly the same parcel number, with more or less the same wording. What really gave them away was the use of the word 'Courier'. That is a term that would never be used by Parcelforce. The sender was dubious too. if you hover the curser over the senders name reveals an E Mail address with no connection to parcel Force, in fact it was 48 characters of utter gibberish = failed miserably!
 
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gramps said:
So many of these now and as said some very convincing especially when coming on your mobile phone ... just today had a friend say she has had unauthorised Paypal payments made on her bank account so had to advise her to change passcodes and never click on links.
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Stories of PayPal taking unauthorised payments from bank accounts are nothing new, and I was very reluctant to sign up with PayPal for that reason.
In the end I was advised to set up a seperate bank account for the Paypal link, and to keep very little money in it.
Remember that PayPal is NOT a bank, and is is not subject to the same laws and regulation that real banks are.
 
Brian G said:
Stories of PayPal taking unauthorised payments from bank accounts are nothing new, and I was very reluctant to sign up with PayPal for that reason.
In the end I was advised to set up a seperate bank account for the Paypal link, and to keep very little money in it.
Remember that PayPal is NOT a bank, and is is not subject to the same laws and regulation that real banks are.
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It isn't Paypal who took her money it was a scammer fraudulently using her account, folk lose money from 'real' banks in the same way too :)
A good additional precaution is to use the Paypal verfification facility, that way you get a text to verify any activity or login and if you use the Paypal App it notifies you of any paymeny/withdrawal made, however it's only any good if you use it!.
 
I get quite a few of these but thankfully I don't order a lot of things on line compared to some others. I'd imagine that if you've got stuff due all the time it could be easy to lose track, have a lapse in concentration for a moment and think one of these scams is genuine.
 
woof woof said:
I get quite a few of these but thankfully I don't order a lot of things on line compared to some others. I'd imagine that if you've got stuff due all the time it could be easy to lose track, have a lapse in concentration for a moment and think one of these scams is genuine.
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I agree about ordering things on line. Generally speaking I will never order items on line unless absolutely necessary I will happily pass my requests and payment details onto a human I speak to at the place I am buying from, at least then I fairly certain they exist with a genuine telephone number.
 
This is very disappointing for me-- I have just received an e mail from a REAL Prince in Nigeria, telling me ( sadly) one of my relatives was killed in an air accident and if I was to send him $300, via Western Union- I could inherit over $29,000,000 :) less his commission of course

Anyone know how to stop a money order through Western Union please? :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Les :)
 
Brian G said:
Stories of PayPal taking unauthorised payments from bank accounts are nothing new, and I was very reluctant to sign up with PayPal for that reason.
In the end I was advised to set up a seperate bank account for the Paypal link, and to keep very little money in it.
Remember that PayPal is NOT a bank, and is is not subject to the same laws and regulation that real banks are.
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I did that years ago I have a 2nd bank account set up with one DD for £3 a month and PayPal . Suppose I’m lucky in over ten years of trading on e.bay I have never as yet had to spend my own money ,always funding buying through selling ... and while a few attempts at scamming have occurred I have always spotted them
 
Lez325 said:
This is very disappointing for me-- I have just received an e mail from a REAL Prince in Nigeria, telling me ( sadly) one of my relatives was killed in an air accident and if I was to send him $300, via Western Union- I could inherit over $29,000,000 :) less his commission of course

Anyone know how to stop a money order through Western Union please? :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Les :)
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Western Union is well known for a route used by scammers. I think they aught to be a little proactive in stopping suspicious transactions, but I think there is about as much chance of that as Donald trump becoming the next US president.
 
When I get these emails in the outlook app I flag them as phishing. Am I wasting my time or does Microsoft take any action ?
 
I don't know but my reckoning is Microsoft is such a large concern the loss of a few bob by a customer will be very low down in the list of concerns.They don't seem to care about anything except making money
 
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