By: Isuru Parakrama
Colombo (LNW): Sri Lanka Postal Department has warned the public of two financial scams pretending to be the Dept in their respective websites and attracting people via SMS messages and / or emails.
The first scam involves a fake website resembling the Postal Department which includes an online transaction system, the Dept clarified, pointing out that Sri Lanka Post has not facilitated such a platform on its official website.
Such scam sites request the visitors to provide sensitive details such as credit / debit card information, the Dept went on, urging the public to stay vigilant and protect themselves and others from such harmful scammers.
The second scam involves another platform pretending to be Sri Lanka Department of Post and targetting specifically Sri Lankans in their claim of postal deliveries being failed due to ‘a missing address line’, the Dept revealed.
The scammers send out SMS messages or emails requesting to log on to a website resembling their Dept’s, subsequently requesting the visitors to provide sensitive details such as credit / debit card information.
The Postal Department urged the public to not share their sensitive information such as credit / debit card details on suspicious websites as such, and encouraged the people to report any suspicious activity immediately to the Sri Lanka Department of Post.
