Possible scams that try to deceive us can reach us through email or through web pages that we visit. In addition, scams that come to us from instant messaging apps like whatsapp. Along these same lines, we are going to focus on a scam that the OSI or Internet User Security Office has echoed due to the great repercussion it is having.
Actually, in this case we are going to focus on a phishing campaign with which Attackers are impersonating the Postal Service. What they do is send us an email supposedly through this well-known national messaging service to get hold of certain private and personal data. Thus, the courier and parcel company is impersonated through fraudulent emails.
This phishing campaign to which we are referring aims to steal the victim’s personal data without their realizing it. In principle, the attackers pose as the entity and request that the delivery date of a package that supposedly has to reach us be modified. All this so that the company can proceed to forward it as soon as possible. This means that, if we have received an email message of these characteristics, we should start to mistrust from the first moment.
How to avoid the phishing campaign that impersonates Correos
Obviously, all this network is carried out to obtain a series of private and personal data that will later be used maliciously. All this through a form in which we are asked for all kinds of personal information, supposedly to schedule the forwarding of the package that we are waiting for from the Post Office.
This form appears on the screen after clicking on the attached link that redirects us to the page malicious website created by criminals. Therefore, and to avoid this type of fraud, we must take into account several sections. First of all, a company like Correos is not going to send us an email for this type of modification. In addition, it is important that we look at the addresses of both the email and the web to which we are redirected to modify our data.
These usually contain strange characters, which will make us suspect that it is some kind of hoax. Therefore, to avoid this type of online scam, we only have to be a little attentive to the addresses that are exposed. In addition, in case of doubt, we can always call the real company that wants to contact us, in this case Correos, where they can clarify the real situation.
We must bear in mind that this email we are talking about can reach us even if we do not expect any package. Obviously, in this case, the best thing we can do is mark the email directly as spam and forget about it.
