02-07-2021, 05:38 PM
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Re: A Mystery
Originally Posted by MargaretF
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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.
Are you sure you googled the genuine DHL site - not the one provided by these scammers?
And you entered the number provided by the scammers?
That would explain why they told you that something had been delivered! Nothing has, of course.
If the number given is a scam, how did the genuine DHL people recognise it?
If I were you, I'd be checking my bank/credit card statements immediately, online if possible, to check whether some money has been taken from you that you cannot account for.
There are so many scams going around these days, it's disgusting and you can't be too careful.
02-07-2021, 05:50 PM
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Re: A Mystery
Originally Posted by LongDriver
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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.
Yes, I was thinking the same.
I would have deleted that email straight away.
Hope everything is ok Margaret.
02-07-2021, 08:51 PM
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Re: A Mystery
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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They quite often show a pic of the door they delivered it to, if it is genuine. The only scam I can think of seeing as there is no payment involved is that someone may have purchased something using your details but had it delivered to another address.
Hmmm . . Margaret, it may be as well to check your bank account as an extra precaution, do you think?
03-07-2021, 05:45 AM
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Re: A Mystery
Originally Posted by JBR
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Hang on a minute.Are you sure you googled the genuine DHL site - not the one provided by these scammers?
And you entered the number provided by the scammers?
That would explain why they told you that something had been delivered! Nothing has, of course.
If the number given is a scam, how did the genuine DHL people recognise it?
If I were you, I'd be checking my bank/credit card statements immediately, online if possible, to check whether some money has been taken from you that you cannot account for.
There are so many scams going around these days, it's disgusting and you can't be too careful.
03-07-2021, 05:46 AM
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Re: A Mystery
Originally Posted by Mups
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Hmmm . . Margaret, it may be as well to check your bank account as an extra precaution, do you think?
03-07-2021, 05:48 AM
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Re: A Mystery
Originally Posted by pauline3
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Yes, I was thinking the same.I would have deleted that email straight away.
Hope everything is ok Margaret.
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