The ACMA is advising consumers to continue to be wary of parcel delivery SMS and email messages with unusual looking links or requests to pay a fee to complete delivery. These messages may be scams.
I’ve received two scam text messages in the last two days advising me of a missed AusPost deliveries. Family members have also received similar text messages, so they appear to be very prevalent at the moment.
The ACMA warn that scammers will often impersonate well known delivery services such as Australia Post, DHL or Amazon, or even use no brand at all but refer to a package or parcel.
If you’ve received one of these messages, do not click on a link without confirming the message is legitimate. Clicking on the link may install malware that uses your contact list to send similar text messages to other people without your knowledge, potentially infecting their device. It may also be a way for scammers to access your personal information and banking details through fake websites, the ACMA say.
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The ACMA also warn that that some SMS scams may slip into your legitimate message streams to trick you. For example, a scam claiming to be from Australia Post may appear among legitimate past messages from the postal service about parcel delivery.
To confirm if a package delivery message is real, contact the sender using contact details you’ve identified yourself, such as through an official website or app, or via information received at the…
