If a package is on the way, this is usually a reason to be happy.
The message is often eagerly awaited.
But you should be careful with an email.
Dortmund-comes an email from the shipping service provider of the choice, that usually means: An ordered good finally sets off to you home.
- E-Mail allegedly from UPS: Package message can become a danger
- Consumer protection warns of alleged UPS-Mail: Customers are lured into the trap with phishing
- Warning of dangerous phishing mail-UPS also gives tips
Reason to joy.
However, if an email from UPS arrives, consumers should take a close look-otherwise there is reason for trouble.
E-Mail allegedly from UPS: Package message can become a danger
Internet long fingers have been targeting package recipients for a while.
Again and again dangerous messages end up in the SMS or mail mailbox and ask consumers to update data or specify that a package could not be delivered.
Most of the news of the fraudsters are quickly exposed.
Spelling errors, poor grammar or simply a lousy presentation of the message provide information on a possible rip-off.
But in the current case, the dizziness is not that easy to recognize.
It is an alleged UPS email (more digital news at ).
Consumer protection warns of alleged UPS-Mail: Customers are lured into the trap with phishing
The consumer advice center warns: There is currently an above-average number of emails on behalf of the shipping service provider UPS.
In the subject of the email it says: You have (1) message from us.
Please click below to open it. In the email itself, customers are pointed out that you would soon receive a package from UPS-but only if you had paid the additional shipping costs of 1.95 euros.
The presentation of the fraud email looks deceptively real, there are no obvious spelling mistakes.
Only the impersonal address of the customers and the sender address are reason for skepticism, according to the consumer advice center.
This should be a phishing attempt.
Warning of dangerous phishing mail-UPS also gives tips
The fraudsters will probably not only target 1.95 euros.
The focus of the attack will probably be sensitive data or account information.
However, what happens exactly if you click on the Arrange your delivery button remains open, the consumer advice center does not inform about it.
Consumer advocates are based on a phishing attempt and recommend moving the mail unanswered to the spam folder.
UPS itself indicates on its homepage that the shipping company never requested payments, personal or financial information, account numbers, ID cards, passwords or invoice copies without being asked by email, mail, telephone or fax.
UPS also provides a few examples of what such fraudulent emails can look like.
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