Scam?

has anyone had similar experience
About twice a week 😄

Thank you for replying Meryl. My insect was right. Phew!

Had you ordered something kalu?

It's a very common scam, Kalu. Forward it to [email protected]

This has been doing the rounds for a while now they try every way to get your details don't they report to @phishing.gov.uk

Yes kitty, from a company in the Netherlands who have notified me my delivery is on its way. I will double check with them which carrier they are using.

Thank you Bodach and glammanana, I have reported it.

Gransnet at its best. 👏

You're welcome, Kalu.

I just had one from ‘Sky’ ‘click this link to update your email address for our upgrade’
Words like that, I am with Sky and do have a Sky.com email, but deleted this email.

I heard a phrase the other day… “Out of the blue? DON’T follow it through”.
Seems a useful thing to remember, though if you are waiting for something less helpful!

Definitely a scam.
They purposely tell you that you have to pay a small amount so that you will think, 'what the heck it's obly £1.25 might as well pay it'
Thing is, they are after your card details and other private info, so they can scam you for larger amounts in the future.
It's a spratt to catch a mackerel.

MrJ had a text last night saying he was eligible for the energy discount payment, and a link to click on. I told him to delete as you don't have to apply for it. Any message with a link, my golden rule is Do Not Click on the Link!

I have this scam quite regularly.

A common scam, I’m afraid.

But Kalu, was the e-mail actually from the company?

Here these scam mails have a headline in very large capitals telling you it is from the Post Office, or UPS, but when you look at the details of the sender's e-mail it says something along the lines of
Annabxly@ followed by an e-mail provider.

So it is relatively easy to identify the scammers.

When you block their address, they send the same mail from a different fake address

For four weeks one determined, or stupid scammer kept sending me an e-mail telling me that my parcel would not be delivered until I had paid the postage due on it, so click here.

Here being a link.

Knowing that I had not ordered anything at all, I did what I would have done if I had ordered anything: felt that wrong postage was the sender's problem not mine, and that they were welcome to return the fictitious parcel to sender.

So I blocked their address and otherwise took no notice.

Now they seem to have realised that they can't catch me that way.