Be careful if you receive an SMS from a delivery person claiming that a package does not fit in your mailbox! This is a phishing campaign intended to scam you by collecting your personal and banking data.
With the growth of online commerce in recent years, scams targeting customers tend to multiply. Fake reviews, counterfeits, packages never delivered… You have to be extra vigilant when making purchases on the Web! And even once you have succeeded, danger still awaits you, with SMS scams! We know the famous Chronopost scam, which invokes a logistical error to extract your data and money.
This time, the Signal-scams platform alerts about the deliveryman and mailbox scam, which hit several people at the beginning of October. Indeed, many people receive an SMS from a supposed delivery person asking them to provide a new delivery slot, because their so-called package did not fit in their mailbox. If the process is not new, it seems to be gaining momentum in recent days in France – Signal-scams.com had already reported its presence at the end of May. Be careful then!
Delivery guy scam: a package that does not fit in the mailbox
The SMS in question generally takes the following form: “Hello, I have a box in the name of XXX. It was too large for the mailbox. Please make another appointment via” sfollowed by a link starting with “directions-jours.com” Or “differentjour.com”. Obviously, this is a fraudulent link, which redirects you to a fake site copying that of La Poste, on which you are invited to enter your personal information and pay a small amount to schedule the new delivery.
This type of scam is particularly effective because it plays on the expectations of package recipients and the worry of not being able to recover it. Of course, the package doesn’t exist. But, you never know, you may be waiting for your last Amazon order and you could fall into the trap! But the novelty, compared to the usual mailbox scam SMS, is the addition of the recipient’s name, which allows the trap to be personalized. An addition undoubtedly made possible by the numerous data leaks which peppered the year 2024 in France, with the hacks of SFR, Meilleurstaux and even Free.
To avoid being fooled, keep in mind that delivery companies never ask you to pay by SMS in order to receive a package intended for you. If in doubt, you can go directly to the delivery organization’s website, without going through the SMS link. Take your time and don’t act in a hurry, that’s what cybercriminals are looking for. If you are ever the target of an online or SMS scam, forward the message to Signal Spam immediately, Pharosor directly to 33,700the platform specializing in reporting scams. You can also report these fraudulent messages to the site internet-signalement.gouv.fr. Then block the sender’s number to no longer be bothered and delete the message in question.