Fraudsters are using fake Apple Pay, Evri and NHS links in an attempt to scam Britons into revealing their bank details.
MailOnline readers have been getting in touch to share the scam attempts they have nearly fallen victim to, with the most common being phishing messages – emails or texts claiming to be from reputable companies to induce people to reveal personal information.
It comes as EE revealed that they block up to one million international scam calls every day and have stopped 11 million fraudulent calls and 200 million texts since the middle of July.
One man shared a screenshot of two texts he received from the same number that were claiming to be from different companies.
Last Tuesday Nigel Lingham-Sutch received a message saying that his Apple Pay had been suspended and telling him to click on a link to continue using contactless.
Just over a week later he got a text from the same number, this time claiming to be from delivery company Evri, formerly Hermes, asking him to click on a link to reschedule a delivery.
Mr Lingham-Sutch said he thankfully did not click on the links as he doesn’t use Apple Pay and was not expecting a delivery so he knew they must be fake. But he said they ‘could appear genuine’ to people without awareness of phishing scams.
Another reader got in touch to say they had received a text claiming to be from the NHS which said the recipient had been in close…
