Coronavirus has speeded the move for many people from shopping on the High street to shopping online which then means a delivery, usually within a few days.

Again, the effect of Coronavirus has been that couriers just leave ring your doorbell and leave the item without ever seeing you.

When they cannot leave the item they sometimes leave a non-delivery card telling you how to collect your item from a distribution centre or arrange a new delivery. Quite often this is now done electronically but scammers have picked up on the use of these cards and create their own.

Across Surrey and elsewhere more of these fake cards are being left at people’s homes.

If you access the website listed then you get to a web page asking for delivery details then it will have a reason to ask for your payment details.

It may say you need to pay small fee to rearrange delivery or that there has been an underpayment by the sender.

Whatever the reason – they just want your card details to sell to other scammers and identity thieves.

If you believe a genuine delivery was attempted but did not happen, then find the company details for yourself i.e. not off any card pushed through the letterbox. Then contact the sender or courier directly to sort things out.

Any demand for further payment is likely to mean there is a scam in progress.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.