
Nowadays, people order different goods from e-commerce sites and the parcel box in which the goods come packed, people often throw them in the garbage. If you also do something like this, then you should be careful, because this parcel box thrown in the garbage can be of great use to scammers and through this they can defraud you of lakhs.
Important information is recorded on the parcel box
The parcel box in which the e-commerce site packs the goods and sends your goods to you, has many important information related to you recorded on it. For example, your full name, home address, mobile number and order number are also recorded on the parcel box. If you throw this parcel box in the garbage without destroying it, you are inviting trouble for yourself.
How to know the information
If you have thrown your parcel box in the garbage without destroying it and it falls into the hands of a scammer, he can extract many important information from the order number recorded on it and your name, address, including your mobile number and Banking details are also included. These scammers can empty your account in a moment using this information.
How to do scam by extracting information
These scammers first steal your confidential information with the help of your parcel box, then they meet you under some pretext and somehow ask you to make a call to someone they know. Where the scammer is ready on the other hand after filling your confidential information on the payment gateway, as soon as his OTP comes on your mobile, he avoids you and shares that OTP with him and in the blink of an eye your account becomes completely empty.
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