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German DHL Customers Face Surge in Sophisticated Phishing Attacks

The Verbraucherzentrale urges customers to verify delivery notices through DHL’s official channels to keep their personal data safe.

Overview

  • Fraudsters deploy SMS and email phishing claiming undeliverable DHL parcels due to incomplete address details and include links to fake websites
  • Links direct victims to professional-looking counterfeit pages designed to harvest personal and financial information or install malware
  • Phishing messages often use generic greetings, obscure sender addresses and urgent deadlines to pressure recipients into responding
  • Verbraucherzentrale cautions that genuine delivery services never request personal data via messages and recommends checking parcel statuses only on DHL’s official site or app
  • Recipients are advised to forward suspicious messages with sender details to [email protected] and to delete or ignore unsolicited notifications