Is this Aus Post text scam or legit?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So there is an os post scam going around and
it's really confusing because it actually looks a lot like
something that oz post is doing. But we didn't know
that oz post was doing it until Alo got sent
it and then decided to go to Australia Post to
see if it was a scam, and they said it
wasn't a scam, but it looks like a scam.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I had to go anyway, and it was really believable
and I was like, I'm not clicking the link, so so.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
They've been there's advice not to do that.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
So this is the scam, right, So you'll get sent
from a random number this message oz post. Your parcel
is currently being processed due to an invalid postal code.
It cannot be delivered and has been temporarily held. Please
verify your postal code within twenty four hours using the
link below.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
The link below.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Says delay hash check dot cop slash au. Then it
says please reply Why then exit the message and reopen
it to act the link or copy and paste the
link into your Safari browser. Best regards the odds Post team.
So that's the bit that makes me go, that's a scam,

(01:09):
making you yes, and then exit and then reopen and
then copy and paste and put it into safar.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's all too hard. Just hand us over your details.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah exactly, But that says so don't do that, because
then what happens is that particular link that takes you
to a site that says, hey, if you pay us,
you need to you need to unlock, and you've got
to give us more of your details to unlock the parcel.
And then people are doing that. So I see that
and I go, that's a scam. And also I know

(01:41):
what I've ordered, so I know I haven't ordered anything,
so it's obviously come from somebody else who's sending me something,
who would send me something, So then I go through
that line of thinking.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
My line of thinking is I don't order anything online,
so it can't be for me fair enough. So I'm
just like air and that's.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Fair enough for you, But for me, we get sent
a lot of things. At the radio station, we get
sent a lot of promotional things, so I often think, oh,
I wonder if someone's trying to send me something promotional.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
So I don't even think that, yeah, because that would
go through work sort of.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
But sometimes people have your number, right, online primo companies
have my number, right, so they could be trying to
send me something. But Alo, you got a text message
and then went in, So can you explain that, because
this is where it gets confusing.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Mine was a little different to yours. It was really similar,
except the only difference was I had to click to
confirm that I had bought the item, which was something
that my wife had bloed I think was shoes or something,
and she was like, well, that's the reparable company that
I have bought something from. So it was really believable,
but it was like, we haven't really bought anything. So
then we had to actually go in and say what's

(02:54):
the deal with this because there's no way has clicking
the link. I don't believe any of that stuff. And
then they're like, no, this is genuine, this is Odd's post,
and like, well, why do you make it look like
a scam?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
That's how good the scam is getting. They're saying that
oz post is making this stuff look like a scam.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yes, so that's what we want to warn you that
their scams going around. But also, Alo, as you started talking,
I just realized your wife got caught.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh that's a scam. I did not buy those shoes.
I don't know what they're talking about, never ordered them,
never them, I didn't. You've given her a terrible voice,
by the way. She does not sound like.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
That so buzzard and the words she make you go
into the post.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
She's never gonna live thatw