Just had an interesting one, which I thought I'd give people a heads up on, since it was a lot more convincing than usual - I can easily see how someone less suspicious could fall for it:
Call from "Royal Mail" claiming I have a parcel waiting - normally wouldn't pay attention, but what I found a bit more convincing about this one was that along with having my full name, the caller was a quite well spoken young lady with a very convincing English accent, unlike the usual broken English with a strong foreign accent on a dodgy line with loads of background noise.
Apparently the parcel was in a depot in London - they gave me the option to collect it, or to arrange redelivery.
I was already sceptical by this point, but decided to play along and ask for delivery, at which point she asked for an email address to send the redelivery request instructions.
I gave her my throwaway address I use for spammy stuff, and sure enough, the email comes through, again with my full name on it, and very well formatted.
The most obvious giveaway was the sender address and URL for the link in the email, both pointing to "portmail.online", although there were a couple of less obvious errors as well:
The tracking number was obviously not valid
The company details in the footer weren't quite correct:
"Royal Mail Group Ltd.
Wales, number 413224 Reg. Office : 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0HQ."
Pretty sure there's no "Royal Mail Group Ltd." registered in Wales (and if there was, why would the office be in London?
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The company number 413224 doesn't appear to be valid.
Anyway, she hung up pretty much straight away after I questioned the URL and originating email address.
I haven't clicked the link just in case, but from the URL it looks like it's a payment page, so I assume I would be expected to put in my card details to pay the "redelivery fee", and they would then either steal the card details, or at least the "fee" amount.
My nan has alzheimer's bless her, she doesnt even know what the TV remote is for now a days
