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Phishing scam, beware

Phishing scam, beware. Just nearly caught by a scarily sophisticated scam. Saturday DPD email abut a missed delivery and invite to click and rearrange and pay for new delivery. Asked for my mobile number. Got suspicious and cancelled the pmt and rang my bank to cancel my card.  Today got text from bank advising fraudulent transaction and reply N if not me. Then a phone call showing callers number as my bank and advising suspicious transactions and that i need to re set my online banking. At this point got suspicious and said I'd call back, he said you can see the number I'm calling from. Rang bank and no record of having rung me. The guy was very convincing and I could see my banks number. Scary, need to be very careful.

Kathleen Healy ● 2159d5 Comments

If you get an e-mail purporting to be from DPD (or any other courier) about a missed delivery, look at the e-mail address it has come from - that usually gives the game away.

Richard Greenhough ● 2159d

I don't know why we are not allowed to store an optional keyword on our account to be used by the bank when they ring us (which is unlikely but does come up sometimes ) and want to discuss anything meaningful with us.Bank :- Hi, It's Jo at Helpful High Street bank, can I discuss your recent transactions.US - Yes, what my keyword  stored against my account ?Bank - I'm reading here it's xxxx, is that right ?US - Yes proceed please.End of callChange keyword as soon as poss, to a new one,  or if you forget and another call comes in , the old keyword is expired so bank could only ask you to reset it and they will call back later for the chat with new one in place.

Andrew Craig ● 2159d

My daughter received this this morning and coincidentally she was expecting a package from DPD but as stated before you can see the email address at the top of the email and it's definitely not from DPD.

Helen Whitman ● 2159d

I've had similar purporting to be from Royal Mail.

Ken Munn ● 2158d

I had one the other day,saying that the hsbc payment I haven't paid is now going to incur charges, so I need to open the link and follow instructions. Yeah, sure. I'm not even an ex customer.

Donna Fraser ● 2158d