If you get an email saying “Item stopped due to unpaid customs fee”, it’s a fake

Our spam traps recently caught a phishing scam that neatly illustrates some of the tactics scammers use routinely to avoid both human intuition, and automatic detection. The scam starts with an unsolicited email, of course… The scam email is ostensibly from the Post Office, an instantly recognisable postal service brand in the UK, and it tells recipients “There is a update in your parcel.

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