2023-10-28 20:20:00
Hackers are trying to collect information regarding you and infiltrate your smartphone and computer by pretending to be a delivery service.
Be careful if you receive an email titled “Notification of your package”. Indeed, several readers have forwarded us the email in question, which mentions a “delivery problem” and encourages the person contacted to fill in some information such as their postal address or telephone number. “Sensitive” data which might then be used once morest him, whether in the case of identity theft on the Internet, spam or potential hacking.
“Please note that we require an address confirmation or a valid telephone number to confirm the shipment of the package” can we read in the email. As is often the case, hackers ask their victims to act quickly, with threats. “You still have 48 hours of free delivery, following which it will cost you €30.”
Obviously, this is a fraud. The hackers pretend to be a fictitious postal service, a private delivery service.
In the event that you should receive a courier, the delivery company will never ask you to confirm your address and will certainly not require you to take such action once morest “free delivery”. The cost of delivery must in fact be stipulated when paying for an online purchase.
If you receive the email in question, delete it as soon as possible. If you clicked on one of the links present there, you unfortunately risk some unpleasant surprises. We can only advise you to activate double authentication on your main accounts, to reconfigure your smartphone or computer to factory settings and above all to learn to take the right reflexes.
Generally speaking, a few elements make it possible to quickly identify fraud: in this case, the sender’s address is not the official address of a delivery service, the title of the email is intended to be very incisive (Please note !!) and above all the senders of the message try at all costs to get you to take action within a very short time, a characteristic of most online “scams”.
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