{"id":2403,"date":"2016-02-03T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2016-02-03T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:44:16","slug":"action-fraud-alert-your-package-has-been-seized-royal-mail-scam-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2016\/02\/03\/action-fraud-alert-your-package-has-been-seized-royal-mail-scam-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Fraud Alert &#8211; &#8220;Your Package Has Been Seized&#8221; Royal Mail Scam Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Message sent by<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Action Fraud (Action Fraud, Administrator, National)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fraudsters are sending out virus infected emails that claim a package has been seized by HM Revenue &amp; Customs upon arrival into the United Kingdom. The official looking scam emails claiming to be from Royal Mail contain a link to a document which will install malicious software on your computer designed to steal credentials like account names, email addresses and passwords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An example email reads:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Title: Your parcel has been seized<br \/>\nRoyal Mail is sorry to inform you that a package addressed to you was seized by HM Revenue &amp; Customs upon arrival into the United Kingdom.<br \/>\nA close inspection deemed your items as counterfeit and the manufacturers have been notified. If your items are declared genuine then they will be returned back to you with the appropriate custom charges.<br \/>\nYou may have been a victim of counterfeit merchandise and the RM Group UK will notify you on how to get your money back. Please review the attached PDF document for more information.<br \/>\nDocument (RM7002137GB).Zip<br \/>\nPlease accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.<\/p>\n<p>To help the spread of the virus, the email also says: \u201cyou will need to have access to a computer to download and open the Zip file\u201d.\u00a0If you receive one of these emails, do not click on any links or download any attachments and report it to Action Fraud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protect Yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Royal Mail will never send an email asking for credit card numbers or other personal or confidential information.<\/li>\n<li>Royal Mail will never ask customers to enter information on a page that isn\u2019t part of the Royal Mail website.<\/li>\n<li>Royal Mail will never include attachments unless the email was solicited by a customer e.g. customer has contacted Royal Mail with an enquiry or has signed up for updates from Royal Mail.<\/li>\n<li>Royal Mail have also stressed that they do not receive a person\u2019s email address as part of any home shopping experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you believe\u00a0that you have been a victim of fraud you can report it online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud<\/a> or by telephone: 0300 123 2040<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message sent by Action Fraud (Action Fraud, Administrator, National) Fraudsters are sending out virus infected emails that claim a package has been seized by HM Revenue &amp; Customs upon arrival into the United Kingdom. The official looking scam emails claiming to be from Royal Mail contain a link to a document which will install malicious&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2016\/02\/03\/action-fraud-alert-your-package-has-been-seized-royal-mail-scam-email\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Action Fraud Alert &#8211; &#8220;Your Package Has Been Seized&#8221; Royal Mail Scam Email<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimewatch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-CL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:39:41","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}