Mehul Reuben DasDec 19, 2022 20:01:12 IST
Because technology has advanced to the point where regular scams simply don’t work any longer, scammers have had to get creative. We recently covered how scammers looted a Delhi-based businessman of Rs 50 lakhs, by just giving missed calls. In 2022, another different and equally scary sort of scam has been doing the rounds.
In the fake parcel scam or cash-on-delivery scam, scammers dressed as delivery persons will try to get you to open a link on your smartphone, or share an OTP that you receive, in order to clone your phone or access your bank accounts. Image Credit: Pexels
If replacing your iPhone or an expensive item from the box with a bunch of potatoes or soap was not enough, scammers have evolved to a much more dangerous level. We are of course talking about the fake parcel scam or the cash-on-delivery scam. This is a scam that disproportionately targets people who often shop online.
What is the Fake Parcel Scam or cash-on-delivery scam?
What basically happens, is that a scammer will pose as a delivery person from one of the biggest e-commerce companies, either Flipkart or Amazon, or sometimes, even from the post office. They will show up at your doorstep claiming that they have a package for you that you need to pay. More often than not, the scammers will rely on the fact that you have a parcel on its way to you for which you have to pay on the spot.
However, if you do not have such a parcel on the way, or that you are not…
