The rise in online shopping has given scammers opportunities to try and swindle valuable details from you by sending texts pretending to be from well-known delivery companies.
Known as 'smishing', the con aims to get you to click on dodgy website links and to give away your personal information. They do this by posing as courier companies like Royal Mail, DPD, Evri (formerly Hermes) and DHL. With online shopping so popular, scammers rely on the chance that you have ordered something online recently, which tricks you into thinking the text is legitimate.
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