Be careful if you receive text messages concerning the delivery of parcels from delivery services such as Colissimo, DPD, UPS or La Poste.

A vast scam is currently raging on French territory.

A warning was issued by Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr, the platform of the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI) which comes to the rescue of victims of hacking.

This scam would have started during the summer before intensifying during this back-to-school period.

The Cybermalveillance platform indicated that it had observed “massive waves of sending SMS announcing the delivery of a particularly aggressive package and causing many victims”.

Concretely, the criminals send false SMS to their victims by ensuring that a package is awaiting delivery and that it is necessary to make an emergency payment to receive it.

🔴[#Cybersecurity ALERT] Waves of fake #parcel delivery #SMS



⚠️ Risks: #virus, #phone hacking, password theft, #account hacking, mass texting...



🛡️ Don't click!



More info 👇https://t.co/9G2XZY1XoE#Android #iPhone pic.twitter.com/4HMpVZBUSy

— Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr (@cybervictimes) September 1, 2022

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Scammers claim customs fees, taxes or shipping costs to demand a certain amount.

The victims would only have to click on the link contained in the SMS.

But this link concentrates the whole trap since it returns to a fake site which has only one objective: to recover the personal information and the banking data of the victims.

This information can also be resold on the dark web to other criminals.

A variant of this scam is to trick potential victims into installing a third-party application.

This contains malware that will steal confidential data.

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