Just had a text message:

DHL: Your urgent delivery is on hold. Please pay £0,49 fee to receive it before 05:00, here – http://dhlu.net
IF fee isn’t paid in time, your deilvery will be sent back to sender.
Sender: HM Revenue & Customs
ID: 4975893
Best regards,
DHL Ltd.

I was going to ask if I was being overly-suspicious, but the more I read it, the more I see reasons it’s dodgy:

– Purports to be from DHL, but also HMRC
– “£0,49” (way too little for customs fees anyway)
– Urgent demand, “will be sent back” (also, it’s a Sunday)
– website actually looks pretty legit, but whois lookup shows it registered to a bloke in Bridgend

OK, think I’ll be passing that on to DHL/HMRC.

(BTW, no I don’t think I’ve ordered anything from abroad but I buy so much online I sometimes forget, and occasionally order cheap non-urgent stuff off eBay from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan)

Almost certainly a con. DHL would deliver item, then invoice you for any taxes plus an admin fee. They would do this by post, not email, in my experience.

DHLU.NET?

Domain:dhlu.net
Registrar:1&1 Internet SE
Registration Date:2017-08-10

REGISTRANT CONTACT
Name:John Medcalf
Organization:GREAT DEALS LTD
Street:Tybryn Terrace 4
City:Pencoed
State:BGE
Postal Code:CF35 6PT
Country:GB
Phone:+44.7852165322
Email:email@inbox.lv

Totally legit. Why not give John a ring and find out?

This is what my last DHL customs/duty text looked like.

Your recent order arriving on DHL tracking #6282434 has customs clearance fees of $ 19.47 visit mypayment.dhl.ca to pay in advance and expedite delivery

Domain registered a few days ago too.

Not sure which is number 4, but my bet is it’s the Pikey camp.

https://goo.gl/JFVeUr

DHL HQ

Thats brilliant, you lot are wasted on stw

TBH, I’d be telling the police (for what good it’ll do).

If that’s where he lives I think you should send him 49p…

100% con.

It’s possible to enter a random delivery ID and mobile and then have the privilege of paying 45p…

Why £0.49? There must be some reason that amount has been chosen for the scam? Will the credit card companies not bother to chase up amounts under 50p?

Why £0.49? There must be some reason that amount has been chosen for the scam? Will the credit card companies not bother to chase up amounts under 50p?

Possibly. But how many people would bother to chase 49p?

If that’s where he lives I think you should send him 49p…

I’d send him an IOU for £0.49, with “I know where you live…” written on the note, with a print of that Streetview pic to go with it.
Actually, I’d send it with no postage on, make the bugger go to the post office and cough up to get it, using an old Jiffy bag, to increase the cost.

If you have to ask.. Lol!

Waiting for an import? You’ll have a tracking number from the sender.

Why £0.49? There must be some reason that amount has been chosen for the scam?

Low enough to arouse your attention hahaha! It’s definitely a phishing scam.

Turn up on mass to collect some parcels ?

Having reached my own conclusion that it was a scam, I forgot to come back and check this thread 😳

I informed DHL – they just sent me a stock phishing advice email. I’d want to look into it a bit more if I were them.

I looked up the address but didn’t street view it 😯

I informed DHL – they just sent me a stock phishing advice email. I’d want to look into it a bit more if I were them.

I suppose playing devil’s advocate here, it’s not really their concern is it. They’re not the ones being defrauded.

True, but I imagine they could save themselves some grief in the long run.

Companies tend to get very upset when people use their branding and pretend to be them (see also National Trust for Scotland 😉 )

More worrying is the question: how did John Medcalf get your phone number?

eh? The only phone number mentioned on this thread appears to be John’s. I’m curious to try ringing it…

Just sign up for some very dubious “literature” using John Medcalfs address…