The scammers in your handbag
Most of us have received this type of message – a text from a delivery service asking for a fee to dispatch a parcel, or your bank claiming there’s been a security breach.
Only, how do you know whether the text is genuine or not? The safest thing is to assume it isn’t the real deal. Ignore it.
Trouble is, with more legitimate companies using email and text to contact customers, it’s not always easy to know which messages to trust. And more and more of us are being taken in by increasingly sophisticated scams
