Criminals are targeting Australians with email scams posing as the postal service, attempting to steal personal and financial information. The scams involve fake delivery notifications requesting customers to click on links to reschedule deliveries or pay fees. Australia Post emphasizes that it never asks for sensitive information via email or SMS and urges recipients to report suspicious messages. Victims are advised to contact authorities and their banks in case of fraud.
Motorists in multiple states using toll roads have become targets of a sophisticated smishing scam. Scammers send fraudulent text messages that appear to come from official toll authorities, such as E-470 Public Highway Authority in Colorado. These texts often contain a link to a fake website that requests personal and financial information. The FBI warns users not to click on the links in these texts and to report them to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) immediately.
HMRC has issued an urgent warning regarding a new QR code scam targeting businesses, cautioning against divulging personal information. This follows a worrying rise in fraudsters using QR codes to steal people’s data. HMRC has emphasized that while they utilize QR codes, they never direct users to input personal information. The tax authority uses QR codes in two primary ways: to provide guidance on GOV.UK or to redirect users to different web pages within HMRC’s secure platforms.
