It’s a couple of days until Christmas and everyone is super stressed because they left their shopping to the last minute, and now they’re waiting on 17 packages to arrive from AusPost in the next 48 hours. At least, I think this is the general vibe — I’m a Virgo so all my shopping was done by November.
Anyway, my stunning organisational flex aside, a huge part of the population has parcels in transit right now with AusPost. Which means, of course, scammers are capitalising on this. Honestly scammers, what did your mothers do to you?
AusPost issued a warning this week about two types of phishing scams doing the rounds.
The first AusPost scam to look out for is the text-based scam. It’s not super sophisticated and looks fairly dodgy, however if you’re busy, highly stressed and only half-looking at your phone it’s easy to make the mistake of thinking it’s legit and clicking on the link.
There are a few different versions of the text-based AusPost scam, but here’s one I copped this month.
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