First scam of Christmas?

[Condor68]

Just had a text from EVRi regarding an attempted delivery which could not be completed as there was no one in and invited me to click a link to rearrange.
As I was not expecting anything and had been in I checked the web site and it came up as Evri.

Keith

[Mike]

I've had the same text and I can guarantee that it didn't come from Evri, more likely to be from a scammer pretending to be Evri (this company were previously known as Hermes).

Never, ever click on any links that these texts contain.

[Condor68]

It was the format of the text/link that triggered it for me.

Keith

[James Cutting]

The biggest give away, is the number.

The second one, is the fact you're not expecting it.

This has been doing the rounds for a while too - often get one from "Royal Mail" saying they missed me and I need to spend £2.99 to rearrange delivery.

[Sparts99]

Plenty on social media too. Gift ideas that appear to be UK based but are actually a network of Chinese companies that take the money but either don't supply the good at all, or what is supplied is not the same as the ad and poor quality. Don't trust the comments in the posts, especially facebook, do a separate internet search for the reviews of the supplier, quite an eye opener. Facebook must be aware of the scams but still allow the ads.

[Red Dragon]

I was nearly caught out a few years back by the "sorry we missed you, for your delivery" scam a few years back. The link just showed as this > tap this link here format.

So like others I was not expecting a delivery, so I right clicked on the here and copied the link address, I went over to office word and pasted the link address on the sheet, and up came a (at first glance) a Royalmail.co dot uk web address........ UNTIL i looked a little more closely at the address, it was Royalmai.l.co.uk

Only a very very small difference, just glad I hadn't had a few beers the night before as I might not have noticed it!

[Sparts99]

I was nearly caught out a few years back by the "sorry we missed you, for your delivery" scam a few years back. The link just showed as this > tap this link here format.

So like others I was not expecting a delivery, so I right clicked on the here and copied the link address, I went over to office word and pasted the link address on the sheet, and up came a (at first glance) a Royalmail.co dot uk web address........ UNTIL i looked a little more closely at the address, it was Royalmai.l.co.uk

Only a very very small difference, just glad I hadn't had a few beers the night before as I might not have noticed it!

Watch for '0' substituted for 'o' as well.

[james143611]

Plenty on social media too. Gift ideas that appear to be UK based but are actually a network of Chinese companies that take the money but either don't supply the good at all, or what is supplied is not the same as the ad and poor quality. Don't trust the comments in the posts, especially facebook, do a separate internet search for the reviews of the supplier, quite an eye opener. Facebook must be aware of the scams but still allow the ads.

Popular for the past few months has been Music Shirts or other events, like an apparent 60 years Doctor Who held by David Tennant, and a Queen shirt held by Brian May, oddly enough background and hands are the same, but the face is different, and full of the usual 'great price, arrived next day' blah blah comments from foreign names

[Sparts99]

Those music t shirts are pretty regular, along with 'Its A (insert your surname here) Thing, You Wouldn't Understand'.

[Condor68]

Obviously Christmas over but thought I would mention we have had a few of the old bt broadband scam calls where they claim to have sent a text to a land line and ask you to press a number to be connected to the message ie scammer.Have not had this one for a while but looks like its still around.

[iainpeden]

Obviously Christmas over but thought I would mention we have had a few of the old bt broadband scam calls where they claim to have sent a text to a land line and ask you to press a number to be connected to the message ie scammer.Have not had this one for a while but looks like its still around.

Thanks for that, I hadn’t realised that was a potential problem.