I got a phishing e-mail posing as DPD to enter my credit card details and pay 2.99 CHF. Please always be careful with this kind of e-mails.
I got an SMS about a delivery a couple of days ago, it wasn’t DPD but it looked kind of legit. I had to look it up, looks like these scams are on the rise here.
How to spot things like this:
– the subject line “Benachrichtigung” is way too generic. No legit company would use this.
– Sender name says “PDP” instead of DPD
– Sender Address (and “sent via”) is clearly not an official DPD Address
– Were you expecting a package? No? Then it’s a scam. No one goes around sending random gifts to people.
– “Um eine Lieferanfrage zu stellen” is not correct German
Also beware of e mails supposedly from your bank. The other day a Swiss person was scammed of 42,000 franks.
Whenever you get an email, do not look at the email address display name, but check the actual email address. Most scammers use a weird address, very few actually go through the trouble to set one up that looks halfways legit like delivery@delivery.dpdch.com.
Lets you discard 99% of scam mail that escapes the filter in 5 seconds.
Thanks for making us aware!
welcome to the internets.
Gmail’s spam filter usually does a good job of getting rid of these scam attempts. Strange how it didn’t work this time.
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I got a phishing e-mail posing as DPD to enter my credit card details and pay 2.99 CHF. Please always be careful with this kind of e-mails.
I got an SMS about a delivery a couple of days ago, it wasn’t DPD but it looked kind of legit. I had to look it up, looks like these scams are on the rise here.
How to spot things like this:
– the subject line “Benachrichtigung” is way too generic. No legit company would use this.
– Sender name says “PDP” instead of DPD
– Sender Address (and “sent via”) is clearly not an official DPD Address
– Were you expecting a package? No? Then it’s a scam. No one goes around sending random gifts to people.
– “Um eine Lieferanfrage zu stellen” is not correct German
Also beware of e mails supposedly from your bank. The other day a Swiss person was scammed of 42,000 franks.
Have you reported it to MELANI ?
https://www.ncsc.admin.ch/ncsc/fr/home.html
Whenever you get an email, do not look at the email address display name, but check the actual email address. Most scammers use a weird address, very few actually go through the trouble to set one up that looks halfways legit like delivery@delivery.dpdch.com.
Lets you discard 99% of scam mail that escapes the filter in 5 seconds.
Thanks for making us aware!
welcome to the internets.
Gmail’s spam filter usually does a good job of getting rid of these scam attempts. Strange how it didn’t work this time.