We nearly fell for this DPD ‘phishing’ scam this morning ourselves – and with (Malc) supposedly being an IT professional it does get a bit worrying for people that aren’t.

Similar to a Royal Mail scam we’ve had recently, these scammers send you a text message, about a redelivery of a parcel:

The address track-dpd.uk seems legit, but it’s not. Normally these scammers use an address that’s clearly fake which is the first red flag.

We were waiting on a parcel, which hadn’t arrived, so just assumed immediately that this text was about that parcel.

Without a further thought, we clicked on the link:

Unlike a lot of scams, this one isn’t riddled this typos and weird english, so we continued to Book a Redelivery, again without thinking twice about it.

Then, nearly getting to the payment page, we twigged that something was not right – we’d only ordered some shuttlecocks, and they weren’t definitely 1 kg in weight.

The payment page was then asking for bank account and sortcode as well as credit card details, which seemed a bit odd – this is normally not needed.

Thankfully, we stopped here, and tested a few links on the scammy page which didn’t work, which confirmed it was indeed a scam. Later on, when trying to visit the link, the web browser is flagging it up as insecure, but this didn’t happen earlier.

If this had gone through, no payment would have been taken, but instead, we would have provided the scammers with all our bank details and debit card numbers, including the 3 digit code.

It’s not always easy to stop and think, as if you are busy you would just like to “get things done”… but be aware of unsolicited emails or texts – and think twice about clicking on them, even if they seem as if they relate to a recent transaction you might have had, which is what a phishing scam is all about.

>> More information from DPD themselves on scam texts