The South African Post Office has issued a warning about a parcel delivery scam which attempts to defraud customers.<\/p>\n
Clients have received emails from fraudsters posing as a Post Office-affiliated service which asks them to send payment in order for their packages to be released.<\/p>\n
“Members of the public receive an emailed letter from a company purporting to be affiliated to \u2018Speed Messenger Services\u2019 using an adaptation of the Post Office\u2019s Speed Services logo,” the SA Post Office said.<\/p>\n
“The letter demands payment for import duty on parcels before the parcels can be delivered.”<\/p>\n
The SA Post Office said it does not require customers to make any payment before parcels are released.<\/p>\n
“If VAT or any other fees are payable on a parcel, this is paid at a Post Office counter at the time when the parcel is collected,” it said.<\/p>\n
The customer will receive a valid receipt for this payment.<\/p>\n
This follows a similar scam<\/strong><\/a> circulated among Post Office clients in November last year.<\/p>\n This scam attempted to defraud customers via SMS by claiming that they needed to pay VAT on their parcel for it be released.<\/p>\n The SMS scam works as follows:<\/p>\n The SA Post Office highlighted that it does not require customers to make any bank deposit before parcels are released.<\/p>\n “Where the Post Office has the cellphone number of the recipient, the customer will receive an SMS requesting him or her to collect the parcel at a specific Post Office branch,” the Post Office said.<\/p>\n “The SMS will not request that funds be deposited into an account.”<\/p>\n The Post Office said that anyone who has information regarding these scams should contact the SA Police, and advised the public to ignore communication of this nature.<\/p>\n The South African Post Office has issued a warning about a parcel delivery scam which attempts to defraud customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":144173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[62562,35,16590],"class_list":["post-334826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-delivery-scam","tag-headline","tag-sa-post-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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