A Mystery

This morning I received an email purportedly from dhlparceluk telling me that my parcel would be delivered by 12 pm and that I would receive an email to give me a one hour delivery slot. There was the option to change the delivery day if I clicked on something further down the email. However, I am not expecting a parcel so I put it down as a scam.

Then my curiosity got the better of me and I googled the official dhl site. There was an option to track and trace a parcel so I put in the number from the email, expecting it to say something like 'number not known' but to my surprise it said that the parcel had been delivered at 7-35 this morning! I checked outside the front door and, as expected, nothing.

Now if the email is a scam, as I suspect it is, what do they have to gain? I wasn't asked for bank details or anything else and no mystery parcel arrived on my doorstep.

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Margaret, wish I could find the article, but it is a recently developed scam.

Hopefully someone else will be able to recall how it works.

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Ah, but what snuk in under your security radar while you were doing all of this? If that was me I'd do a full scan via my Malwarebytes scanner; not that it would have been me as I treat most things like that as a scam in one way or another.

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Ooer, that's an odd one Margaret.

I, like you, would be suspicious.

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Ah so it is a scam - I'm glad my scam-radar is still working even when I can't see how the scam works

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I sent the email to the Spam box and didn't open it further. I run regular checks on my computer for bugs. Thank you anyway for the advice.

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Dex, you don't mean the parcel one where they say they were unable to deliver a parcel and you've got to pay to have it re-delivered, do you? Or is that a different one altogether?

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It is indeed Mups - I shall be interested to see if anyone on here has seen it before.

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It's different one. Wish I'd done more than skim read it.

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If you are not expecting a parcel, then its scam. If you WERE expecting a parcel and its been delivered elsewhere, then contact the seller and let them deal with it. Don't get involved and don't pay any money.