Today I received a text purporting to be from ‘MyHermes’ "Sorry we missed you" and asking for £1.46 to re-sked a delivery. I am no fan of Hermes. They have messed up loads of deliveries and pick-ups for/from me but they have never asked for any money to re-sked a delivery or pick-up.
The form started with name, phone # and date of birth. Next page, the payment page - card details. No way - been there, done that. BING! All the lights go on in the leetle grey cells - it’s the same format of scam I did fall for last week!
On that occasion it was 'I.P.S. [International Parcel Service] asking for 2€ duty to have something released from Customs.
Now, it just so happens I have made quite a number of mail order purchases in the past three weeks but couldn’t quite recall one that involved Customs. However, as it was only 2€ I went ahead.
15 secs after completing the payment page the penny dropped. The 2€ is only a piffling amount that encourages people to pay up. The real cost would come later when one’s bank account was cleared 
I got to the bank after half an hr’s drive in an existential sweat - the difference between what I sold my flat in VLC for and what I paid for my house in Vire - over €35k * - has it been cleared? If so, I’m ruined.
The bank cancelled my card, cut it up, ordered a new one. No debits had been made on the a/c not even the 2€ ‘duty’.
I googled ‘International Parcel Service’ - their logo is identical to UPS, just with an ‘I’ where the ‘U’ is - and no courier co appeared, but I did see this:
"Received an SMS from the number 0646044504 telling me that a package is pending and that I have to pay customs receipts of 2.95 e to plan the delivery. And since then, there are automatic withdrawals of 37 euros which are operated every two weeks on my account."
A French victim of ‘International Parcel Service’. I don’t know why he didn’t pull the plug on the d/d’s after the first one …
Now scammers are using a real company, MyHermes, to pull the same trick.
- @AngelaR sensibly suggested a Livret Bleu.
