Hotmail And Gmail Alert Thousands Targeted By Dangerous Ups Emails.

To claim the package, the person targeted by the scam is told to go to a website and enter their personal information. But this is all part of an elaborate scam to steal personal information from the victim. The sites the emailers are directed to are designed to collect personal and financial information that can then be used to commit identity fraud or steal money from the victim. Notifying people in the UK of the scam, Action Fraud said on Twitter: “Action Fraud received 1,697 reports in one week of fake emails purporting to be from UPS. “The emails claim that the recipient has missed a delivery and has a package waiting for them. “Links in emails are designed to steal personal and financial information.” Action Fraud, which is the UK’s national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre, also revealed an example of an email scam. And there are some clear giveaways that email is not what it seems. The first clear sign that the email is fake is that the logo purporting to be UPS is clearly not real – saying IPS instead of UPS. There is also a typo in the email – something that shouldn’t happen with official mail from well-known companies. UPS itself offers tips on its website for spotting scam messages – with the delivery giant saying it would never ask customers to provide details such as personal or financial information in an email. He said: “Please be advised that UPS does not solicit payments, personal information, financial information, account numbers, identifiers, passwords or copies of invoices unsolicited by email, mail, telephone or fax or specifically in exchange for the carriage of goods or services ». The delivery company also offered some tips to help people spot a scam message. UPS said these errors could be a sign of a scam message… Design Defects – An e-mail containing distorted or irregularly sized logos Poor grammar – Grammatical errors and excessive use of exclamation points Spelling errors – Misspelled words or links to modified websites UPS added that messages that convey a sense of urgency and have unexpected requests can also be a sign of fraud. If you check for all these things but are still not sure if a message you received is genuine or not, the best thing to do is to contact UPS directly. Although this will take some time, it will save you a lot more time and stress if you fall victim to such a scam.