I was nearly scammed recently. I’d like to think I’m the type of person who is vigilant to this nonsense. At work my antennae are finely honed to anything that looks like it might be trying to get me to give them money nefariously or those dastardly email scams. We have protections and procedures to ensure we don’t fall foul, but you never know so I like to be eagle-eyed. My brain is engaged and suspicious of most things before I trust what is in front of me. It’s part of my job.
As regular readers know I got the keys to my new house recently and I’ve been taking some time moving in. I’ve needed quite a bit of stuff and so I’ve had multiple outstanding orders for different things to be delivered through varying couriers. At one point I got a bit overwhelmed by what was coming when and whether I needed to be in and what address it was to be delivered too. It’s calmed down now though and I’m only waiting for a couple of big items that are on back order. Not a problem. So it was odd the other morning when I received a text message from a courier telling me a delivery had failed and I needed to rearrange.
It looked reasonable. I’ve been receiving text messages from all sorts to arrange things and I thought that the particular courier being mentioned didn’t have a parcel for me, but you know, they might. I clicked on the link in the text and started to fill out the form that was required to rearrange. It was when I got to their request for my date of birth that my Spidey senses tingled. I haven’t had to give anyone my date of birth to buy or get anything delivered. So why would this company want this info if I haven’t provided it before now. I popped onto my emails and soon realised that I didn’t have anything outstanding with this courier and even though I’m still waiting on some things, this was not to be believed.
I quickly got rid of the form on my phone and deleted the message just in case I click on it again. Bastards! I’m now going to let Mary Earps inform these wicked people as to what they can do…
That’s them told, thanks Mary.
Look, I nearly fell for it. I can understand how lots of people fall for it. It was so simple and quick and easy to do. And we’re all programmed now to fill in forms so that we can get to the thing that we actually want. All I’d say though is that you should try and keep your wits about you and double check before you start clicking the submit button. I was fortunate. Peace and love.
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