#Wal parcel tracking text update
🔹 It’s asking you to update payment information urgently The number one piece of advice for avoiding being scammed: avoid following any links you’re sent in text messages. If you think you’ve given away your bank details, contact your bank immediately via its official channels and tell it what’s happened. Scammers can still use these details to target people with more scams, possibly with phone spoofing scams where they pretend to be calling from your bank. By this time, a lot of victims have told us they’ve realised something’s not right, but have already given away sensitive details. Only after you’ve handed over your address, number, and other personal information, the site warns there’s an outstanding fee to pay.
Instead of asking for payment upfront, this clone site cleverly takes details from you, piece by piece, to ‘locate’ your parcel: The cloned websitesįake messages are linking to increasingly sophisticated copycat websites that look just like the real thing. The first and third texts are genuinely from Hermes. We’ve seen fake texts drop into the same conversation thread as real text alerts from Hermes, making them more believable. In theory, these names should be protected by the phone network so they can’t be used fraudulently, but fraudsters have found a way to mask or ‘spoof’ Hermes’ name. Scam texts can often be spotted because they’re usually sent by an unknown mobile number, rather than a named SenderID (such as ‘Hermes’). The links included take you through to copycat Hermes websites. Some now include an estimated time of delivery and the names of big retailers, sometimes followed up shortly after with a fake missed delivery notification from the same number. They include a link that takes you through to enter details or make a small payment.īut Hermes never asks for payments via text – it only sends links that let you view parcel tracking.Ĭustomers have wised up to this, so scammers are now including other details in the message to mimic real Hermes texts, and offer links to ‘track’ a parcel. These scams start out as a text message saying you’ve either missed a delivery or there’s a fee to pay for a parcel. Scam texts claiming to be from delivery company Hermes have been circulating for a long time, but recently the scammers behind them have been trying to make their attempts to con you more convincing – here’s how: Fake Hermes text tactics They usually warn victims that their account has been compromised, persuading them to send their money to a new ‘safe account.’ But this is all a lie. Text message scammers ultimately want to get hold of your details, including who you bank with, so they can later call you pretending to be that bank. Here’s how fraudsters have been changing their tactics to try to catch you out.
There’s been a resurgence in fake Hermes texts trying to lure you into bank transfer scams.
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