Parcelforce Scam
September 14, 2022
By Paul Homewood
This is the latest scam, watch out for it!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Got one myself a couple of days ago, I have had a similar one purporting to be from DHL, also threatening ones from HMRC.
Then there are the ones claiming to have recorded me on my webcam, they’re really amusing.
If in doubt check the email message header, that generally gives the game away.
Not just ParcelForce. I get loads of junk emails from the likes of Evri (Hermes, as was) and others.
Thanks for posting this. We have similar scams in the US and have to be vigilant too. My email displays the sender’s email next to the logo. LOL when I read it’s an individual, not Paypal, Amazon, etc.
I get something like this at least once a week.
Now the scammers are imitating 2nd level security txt messages from your card provider, using similar protocols. Always dial the number on the back of your card, use no other!
Always use a different phone to call the number on the back of the card as the scammers have been known to keep the line open so that they are the recipients of your call to the card number.
If you don’t have another phone either put your phone down for a good ten minutes or borrow a neighbour’s phone.
The 7726 number as suggested below is worth using for scam/spam calls. (7s7p2a6m).
I always call even friends on a separate phone if I get an ‘iffy’ text from them.
They should try asking for payment of customs duties for an overseas parcel, at least that would have some plausibility, but they don’t really need it, enough people must pay to keep it going.
This is an old scam.
Off topic: New York Times has just reported that the billionaire proprietor of the company “Patagonia” Yvon Chouinard has just given the company away . The NY Times says that the profit from operating the company will be used to fight climate change. Make of that what you will.
I thought it was going to be a genuine email from parcel force claiming your parcel had been delayed by climate change.
I’ve only had one scam mail so far, claiming I had had a close covid contact and needed to go to a site to order a free test. I’ve never signed up to any tracing facility and anyway I never take my phone out the house and know everyone that has visited has not had covid.
I had his happen three times in the last month.
This sort of attempted scam happens on a regular basis. Junk email that I report as a phishing scam, but it makes no difference, they keep coming.
I see the local Alert service for our area, it has scam warnings every week, in every shape and guise. My question would be, why aren’t the authorities doing something about it in a serious way? The various email providers should be made to co-operate, and these “boiler houses” dealt with.
these should be getting filtered by your email system to the junk folder. If not, then as mentioned above, check the senders email. More worrying is the phone text as these can spoof the genuine phone number and are more convincing.
On a different note, the following article from el gato malo about the physics and economics of the current EU outputs is brilliant
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/eu-physics-denial-has-come-home-to
It sure is well worth reading. Thanks for the link.
It was
A more excoriating takedown of the imbeciles that have brought this catastrophe upon us, I never have read.
Add to the list the NHS “You have been in contact with someone with Covid, click here for a test kit. You are then told to pay them £12 to have this sent to you.
I thought that this scam came from Lord Deben, the Climate Change Committee and a Klimate King
Scammier than a Scammell loaded with scampi.
There are a lot of scams aroud the £400 energy cost rebates too. It is automatic, do not send your details to anyone!
A much bigger scam is the one the BBC is reporting on its News programs: that scientists have developed an AI program (AKA: Model) to more accurately determine the thickness of ice in the Arctic – especially in Summer when melt-water on the surface can confuse the radar that normally measures it. Their strap-line is that this will allow scientists to ‘more accurately predict when the Arctic will be Ice-Free’. (Not a glimmer of doubt in the BBC…pity they don’t bother to work out how that will ever happen)
Yes, includes the lie:-
“The extent of Arctic sea-ice cover has been in decline for the entire period that satellites have been monitoring it…….”
It is less now than at the start, that is not the same as in decline for the entire period, which it hasn’t been, because some years have been higher than prior, and it has been stable on average for the last 10/15 years.
I don’t get many emails, perhaps due to my use of eccentric email addresses. I use a nickname combined with places.
I do get texts from Parcelforce and Evri once in a while. I sometimes think they come shortly after I get an actual parcel but this maybe just that I notice those more.
I have different email addresses for different uses. What is interesting is when you get a sudden surge of new spam. You then wonder who it is that has sold your details on and look back at what you did recently. What has really surprised me is that my most personal address has received a spam – the most recent use on this was signing up to the new John Lewis credit card. Hmmm…..given that it is a company I have never heard of before as opposed to HSBC.
You can check if your email has been involved in a major breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com/
My own has been involved in breaches at moribund companies: Last.fm and myspace. Never use the same password in two different places!
I have known of apparently sensible people who have fallen for these, usually because they were rushed and didn’t think straight.
Obvious thing here is have you actually ordered anything from them. Have you been sent a tracking email as with Parcelforce – and Evri, DPD, etc – you usually are. Most online companies notify of sending and provide tracking – I can tell you metals.co.uk don’t as I eventually spotted the delivery lying outside but with them next day is next day.
In spain too but the main problem is phantom calls and free invites with a free gifts.
You can forward text scams to 7726 in the UK. (I hope that whoever receives them actually does something about them.)
When I block a spam number I get the option to report it as spam. I always do but where it goes I’ve no idea.
Blocking is not much use as the next comes from a different number
The gaps between the letters should be a giveaway about it being fake.
It’s certainly a scam, and you’re doing a public service by drawing attention to it, but it’s hardly “the latest”; I was getting these at least a year ago, and possibly more.
There are variants, of course. Vigilance is all!
We had a text which supposedly came from MBNA. Checked it against a ‘whocalledme’ list and everyone was certain it was a scam. But no, it was apparently real and we had a couple of charges on our account that were not hours. Had them removed.
Glad to see this was picked up.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/renewables-will-save-us-a-billion-trillion-pounds-i-think-not/
I’d add, not content with modelling the climate, they are now modelling the savings renewables will bring – what could possibly go wrong!
How do so many people get taken in by things like this?
If you get a message, and you’re not expecting such a delivery, it’s a scam! How hard is that to understand? Just delete it
Still, it would be good to wreak some sort of retribution.