Millions of UK households issued 'do not' warning over Christmas delivery
Christmas shoppers have been warned over the rise in "missed delivery scams" over the festive season. Writing into the Guardian newspaper's consumer affairs section, a John Lewis shopper has been left angry after buying slippers online only to be tricked by a missed delivery email.
They wrote: "I placed the order and subsequently received an email from Evri telling me delivery had not been successful and I needed to book another slot. It included a link, so I used it to book one and paid the £1.50 fee it asked for with my credit card."
Within 24 hours, they were "phoned by a man who said he was from the John Lewis fraud team and told me my account had been compromised." The consumer went on: "He clearly had some access to my account as he was able to tell me details of purchases, and was very convincing.
Is there anyone left who doesn't know about this scam? Okay, the Grauniad seems to have tracked one down, but the Grauniad is good at that kind of thing, as is the BBC.
2 comments:
Surely the Grauniad and the Beebists could investigate further! Evri have been in the news quite a bit recently, which is why they changed their name from Hermes! Lots of pics of soaked parcels beside an old Ford van looked like a promising scoop for the less intelligent readers to drool over!
And whatever happened to all the holiday ads so soon after Christmas?
Mind you, we don't watch live TV so wouldn't have seen them anyway, so we won't get double-booked on a holiday we were never going on in the first place...
Scrobs - we don't have a problem with Evri, but we hear of lots of others who do. We're in the same position as you with holiday ads, there could be loads of them on TV, but we wouldn't see them.
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