How to secure your transactions and not be fooled by fake text messages

Phishing - A foreign-sounding term that we do not understand. In short, it means a way of online fraud . The aim of the scammer is to trick the user into providing confidential data . As a result of their activities, online criminals gain possession of debit and credit card numbers, access to an electronic bank account, as well as information related to their financial operations . All this makes it possible to defraud and steal money. In e-commerce, the most commonly used method is fake SMS whose content is deceptively structured like the messages of banks, online shops and courier companies regarding payment and delivery.

For many months now, financial process operators have been trying with multiplied force to stand up to cybercriminals and secure their customers as much as possible. At the forefront of this are banks, which secure access often to the full assets of their trustees, but paradoxically any service provider is a target that fraudsters can use to seize funds. It is therefore of paramount importance that service providers are as concerned as possible about the security of their customers. Often against their apparent convenience, but above all in the best interests of the customer.

Download the application InPost Mobile

For the service provider, the key should be the security of operations with customers and their maximum security . It is well known that sending sensitive data via SMS is the easiest way for criminals to gain access to funds or to defraud sums of money of varying amounts . New technologies are being developed with all the current online threats in mind. InPost protects its customers with alternative service methods that significantly offset the risk of abuse by cyber fraudsters. Since the most important thing for customers in courier services is the delivery status of their parcel, InPost offers a number of possibilities to control this status.

The safest way to protect your data is to use the app . InPost has made available to its users application InPost Mobile which contains all delivery data. The app is a state-of-the-art solution that fully prevents unauthorised access and is therefore recommended in the first instance.

Of course, customers can use other forms such as email notification or checking the status via a smart chatbot, for those who prefer traditional methods - there is a helpline or a 'shipment tracking' option on the website. We live at a time when there is a growing group of smartphone users among customers buying and selling online. This tool has today become a key way to build a platform for information exchange between service provider and customer, without exposing either party to share sensitive information with unauthorised and fraudsters.

In times of the fourth industrial revolution, it is extremely important to eliminate threats. This is one of the reasons why users of the InPost app do not receive dangerous SMS messages. It is incumbent on each of the entities involved in the processes of money flow in the market circulation to build broad awareness of the cyber threats to which each of us is exposed on a daily basis, as we pay our electricity bills or wait to receive a parcel with a gift for a child. Let's keep ourselves and everyone around us safe.