CORNER BROOK, N.L. — After being taken in by an email scam, a west coast man wants to make sure it doesn’t happen to other people.
“It’s rather embarrassing to get nailed on it,” Peter Fenwick of Cape St. George told SaltWire Network on Friday, Jan. 28, after going through what he calls “a harrowing week.”
On Friday, Jan. 21, Fenwick received an email purportedly from Canada Post saying it had attempted to make a delivery at his home, but couldn’t because no one was home.
Fenwick had a couple of packages coming from Amazon that are overdue and thought that might be one of them.
“So, that is the reason that I actually said, ‘OK, if you couldn’t deliver it that day you can deliver it another day.’”
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He was told he would have to pay a fee of $1.50 and gave them his credit card information to charge it to.
Then he got a message saying the package would show up on Monday, Jan. 24.
It didn’t, but it’s common for there to be mail delays, so Fenwick thought nothing of it.
After receiving a third email, Fenwick said, he had the feeling that something was fishy.
He took a printed copy of one of the emails to the local Canada Post office, where he was told it didn’t come from the post office and he had been scammed.
