"Your shipment has arrived": Caution, the scam continues

Many Israelis have received text messages impersonating the Israel Post - requiring them to pay for packages they have never ordered.

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Yinon Ben Shoshan

17/01/2022

Monday, 17 January 2022, 09:45 Updated: 09:55

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The impersonating messages to the Israel Post (Photo: Screenshot)

Did you receive an SMS from Israel Post stating that "your shipment has arrived"?

Beware - This is probably a scam attempt, designed to deceive your details for fraudulent purposes.

The malicious link attached to the message under the name IsraBill, leads to a site that is visibly identical to the official website of the Israel Post, where customers are asked to pay for shipping costs.

This is a known scam that has been going on for more than a year, in which the attackers use the legitimate number and name of Israel Post services, so that a customer who previously received authentic messages from Israel Post - will receive the phishing message from the same sender (Israel Post).

In the present case, the notice was delivered under a different name.

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The impersonating site (Photo: Walla! Technology, screenshot)

"The site impersonates almost exactly the same as the original Israel Post website, and those with a keen eye will notice the URL that is not the original address," said Tom Malka, a cyber-threat intelligence researcher, in a conversation with Walla!

technology.

"Also, the domain is five days old and stored overseas.

Recommends that anyone who enters their credit details be revoked immediately. "

Last month, police, with the help of the cyber unit in Lahav 433, arrested a Palestinian citizen on suspicion of phishing scams, who impersonated the Israel Post and sent thousands of messages to make citizens pay hundreds of shekels for never ordered packages. It turned out that the suspect pocketed tens of thousands of shekels using the fraud method, when during the period in which he acted he managed to get dozens of citizens to enter the credit details.

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