Criminals send thousands of texts about an undelivered bargain buy and ask for a redelivery fee in a bid to mine your data and bank details
You have landed a lot of bargains in the run-up to Black Friday and most of your Christmas shopping is done.
So when a text arrives about a delivery, it’s no surprise. A quick click on a link and you have paid the £2 redelivery charge it’s asking for.
The problem is, the package in the text does not exist, and you have just handed your bank details to a criminal gang which has been “spraying” thousands of similar messages to mobile phones around the UK after one of the year’s biggest shopping days.
Warnings have been issued by the government, mobile phone operators and delivery companies as fraud reaches record levels in the run-up to Christmas. Criminals rely on confusion as people expect deliveries, but also lose track of the details.
