India Post Parcel Fraud: Through the Indian Postal Department, i.e. India Post, you can send your parcel anywhere in India. Or you can order anything. India Post gives you a tracking number for this. Through this, you can track your parcel. But for some time now, many cases of cheating people in the name of India Post have come to light on social media. Messages are sent on people’s phones to collect the parcel. And it is said that you have 48 hours.
If you do not click on this link and do not follow the process to get the parcel, then your parcel will be returned. Many people, in greed for the parcel, click on the link and become victims of the scam. But now scammers have found another new way to cheat people. This method is so dangerous that you will not even be able to understand that you are being scammed. Let us tell you how you can save yourself from this scam.
Fraud by booking parcel
Earlier, messages were sent to people in the name of India Post. It was written in which your package has arrived in the warehouse and we have tried to deliver it several times. But your address is incomplete. You should update your address by going to the link given within 48 hours. Otherwise your parcel will be sent back. On seeing this message, you used to click on the link. That link was not of the official website of India Post, that is why many people were saved from fraud.
A new way of fraud
But now the fraudsters have found a new way to scam. Now a parcel is booked in your name. In which your number is registered and then you get a message about the parcel from India Post. On which the tracking number is also given. If you track the parcel through the tracking number. Then you get complete information on the website of India Post.
You start to believe that someone has really sent you something. But as soon as you believe that someone has sent the rest of the parcel for you, you are almost about to get caught in a scam because this parcel is booked by the scammer in your name. After this, the scammer calls you and tells you that a parcel is booked in your name because you have received the message.
So in such a situation you think that it is true that there is a parcel in my name. Then the scammer asks you for money to give the parcel. You think that paying a few rupees for the parcel is not a loss-making deal. In such a situation you give the money. You think that now you will get the parcel. But this does not happen, the scammer takes your money and you do not even get the parcel.
How to avoid this scam?
First of all, when you receive such a message, do not react to it immediately. Find out if anyone in your house has ordered anything for you or if someone has ordered something in your name. If you have not ordered anything and no one in your house has ordered anything, then ignore this message.
If a scammer calls you and says that there is a parcel in your name, you should still refuse and say that you don’t want to take the parcel. But if he repeatedly asks you to take the parcel, then you should complain to the cyber cell of that number. And while clicking on the link, keep in mind that the link in the message is not of the official website of India Post. So don’t click on the link even by mistake.
