The UAE residents have received SMS and emails from scammers seeking AED 4 payment to claim parcels.
Residents expressed concern over such messages with fraudsters using names and logos of well-known courier companies to avoid suspicion.
People have said that this can be controlled through awareness campaigns about the dangers of responding to such messages.
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These are essentially aimed to steal bank data and victims often fall into the trap of small payments between AED 4 and AED 12.
Such phishing attacks have been reported by people with a resident saying that her aunt became a victim of the fraud.
