False notices of passage stamped by the Post Office are currently circulating, particularly in Normandy. Be careful not to fall into the trap set by scammers.
“This is the first time that we have been confronted with a phishing attempt that mixes physical and digital media”, indicated La Poste last summer at the Parisian. It would seem that the scam of fake delivery notices is making a comeback in the middle of winter. The Calvados gendarmerie warns of an upsurge in this scam in recent days, warns The Free Channel.
Slipped into your letterbox, these documents, which look like real delivery notices, encourage their recipients to go on the Internet to confirm the delivery of a letter or a package. Via a link or a QR Code, the victims are redirected to a bogus site containing the graphic charter of La Poste where they must fill out a form with a whole lot of information. Thanks to this trap, the scammers hope to recover your bank details. To avoid falling into the trap, be vigilant and scrutinize the slightest clues left on the notice of passage. If it is a fake, you will notice that the tracking number is directly printed, whereas on the real notices of passage, the numbers are written in pen. If, this summer, the Montpellier region had been the target of agrefins, it would seem that Normandy has become their new playground.
This is not the first time that La Poste has been the target of scams. Already in 2020, the public company was forced to alert its customers once morest an SMS fraud attempt. In a message sent by hackers, the targeted people had to pay additional fees to postage their package.
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