Phishing scam

Skyfloater

It's that time of year again when the scammers are busy trying to ruin our Christmas. I just got an SMS from an IEUPSSMS saying
" Item stopped due to unpaid customs fee. Follow the instructions here: dodgy looking link

Any other suspect sms messages or emails doing the rounds?

Endaaaagh

Yup. my wife got the same one this morning. Unfortunately she was expecting a parcel that would need a customs charge paid so she clicked on the link and entered her payment details. She was then directed a page congratulating here for setting up a "crazyhotdealz" account! Luckily her bank were on the ball and stopped the payment immediately.

freshpopcorn

I got it also.
I was expecting various packages one could have had custom charges but I copied the tracking number to the official UPS website and it didn’t work.
Also it looked a bit dodgy. However If I was half asleep I could have done it.

JasonStatham

Skyfloater wrote: »

It's that time of year again when the scammers are busy trying to ruin our Christmas. I just got an SMS from an IEUPSSMS saying
" Item stopped due to unpaid customs fee. Follow the instructions here: dodgy looking link

Any other suspect sms messages or emails doing the rounds?

Yeah i got this but didn't order anything in a while so knew it was a scam. But pretty convincing i think by the look of it.

suicide_circus

Got it too and am awaiting a package. Amazon have a mole somewhere.

Donald Trump

suicide_circus wrote: »

Got it too and am awaiting a package. Amazon have a mole somewhere.

They have loads of them

Nobotty

Endaaaagh wrote: »

Yup. my wife got the same one this morning. Unfortunately she was expecting a parcel that would need a customs charge paid so she clicked on the link and entered her payment details. She was then directed a page congratulating here for setting up a "crazyhotdealz" account! Luckily her bank were on the ball and stopped the payment immediately.

I got it too,the link in the text went to a pretty convincing ups landing page where the only option to click was a track package button
I didn't click that,I presume it was after that they looked for card details?

I am expecting a ups package which is a fishy coincidence
Is there any possibility that the link contained malware?
Don't know enough about this

Darc19

Never ever ever ever ever ever ever click on a payment link on a text.

Ups don't send them, neither do FedEx, tnt, dpd, gks, an post or anyone else

L1011

suicide_circus wrote: »

Got it too and am awaiting a package. Amazon have a mole somewhere.

The statistical likelyhood at this time of year would be that most adults are waiting for some form of package; especially those with phones with browsers on them able to click links.

Nobotty

Nobotty wrote: »

I got it too,the link in the text went to a pretty convincing ups landing page where the only option to click was a track package button
I didn't click that,I presume it was after that they looked for card details?

I am expecting a ups package which is a fishy coincidence
Is there any possibility that the link contained malware?
Don't know enough about this

A possibility, but more likely just trying to get money and not loading malware.

If your phone is Android based, might be worth a read
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/4-signs-your-android-phone-has-hidden-malware-and-how-to-deal-with-it/

As for the fact that your expecting a package, just a coincidence, given the time of year and the market UPS have it's a common tactic to use their name/logo for scams.

ExMachina1000

Got the same text message and also got a notification from the phone saying "automatically moved to spam"