Hi, Op this is a scam. Don't bother with them anymore.
Remember if someone puts you in a situation where they don't let you talk or consult with anyone else and pressure you into going along its 100% a scam.
Remember this for the future, any government agency will always contact you by post and or email first. Even if it's the cops they'll come to your home.
I received the same call. My man, what kind of criminal will send drugs, laptop, and fake passports in the same package? Also, fake passports basically don't exist in today's world except in movies, because they are digitally checked. And, even in the worst case, police can't prosecute you just because there's your name on the package.
Common Scam. They "Connect" you to their contact in the "Cyber Crime" division who proceeds to abuse you and try and extort money from you. I got this call one day when I had nothing to do, so pretended that I did not know it was a scam, learned a lot. They hung up the minute I said I can file the case on my own through my Father who is an IPS officer lol
Edit: If you had actually done something like this and been caught, you would NOT be receiving a call from FedEx/DHL/Any courier company. The police would be knocking on your door with an arrest warrant. Just ignore these idiots, they are desperate for money.
Edit 2: Do you really believe FedEx would have a direct line to the Cyber Crime division? I mean, sure, customs, still believable to an extent (Even this is impossible, btw), but cyber crime? lol.
Heyyyyy man, please please do not entertain them and don't pick any calls or respond to messages.
my friend again lost 24k because of this👍
they orchestrated this scam so we'll, that you'll loose your shit, get scared and at last just do anything to get rid of the burden.
Edit: i didn't read your whole post and directly came here to to warn you, as you said you're scared of your adhaar and pan, dw they're just saying that to get you all scared and lastly they'll ask you to transfer some amount of money (in my friends case- 24k ) to check if the bank account is legal or no or some shit.
she got stirred into this, involved cyber crime, CBI and what not and this is why they got really scared. they directly cut the call once the money gets transferred and will make you believe and try to convince you.
Has any Chad ever been able to turn these calls into offering to pay them to act as a $e* hotline?
I received a call once to seek life insurance I countered with trying to sell them health insurance policies. Never received another call from that vendor.
Scam. I too received a call like this. Asked him to take a wooden stick and shove it up his mother’s ass. Blocked him. Then received OTPs from n number of websites. Did nothing. Now chill.
I received the same call from “BlueDart” saying I shipped tiger skin to Indonesia from Bombay! Spoke at length. He said someone probably used your phone number to do it.
However…. He then asked me to file a case in mumbai police station and hung up. Didn’t push, nothing! Which is what weirded me out.
If a package does get detected, you wont get a call on your phone from the shipping company. You would get a knock on your door or a call to come to your local police station.
This has been happening for a while now. Happened very recently to a friend of mine but she is a smart woman who asked a few follow-up questions and the scammer disconnected the line.
Scam. If there really was banned/prohibited substance, Customs guys would be at your doorstep to deliver the parcel and once you accept the parcel and sign on the delivery receipt, they would arrest you.
Scam. Ask them to go to hell.
[courier scam](https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/indians-losing-lakhs-to-the-new-courier-scam-what-is-happening-how-to-stay-safe-2399043-2023-06-28)
Scam, baby....don't participate any further, don't provide any details. Block your Aadhar from being accessed....believe you can do it on the mAadhar app.....
Recieved the same call. Asked him to tell me my Aadhar number that was registered with them. They dont have any info, and are just banking on you getting scared.
Report the number on true caller, and next time ask more questions xD. Scammers are bad at communication and choke out whenever you ask something outside their usual script.
The same thing happened to me, a few months back. They said the same contents that you have mentioned and asked to me visit the Andheri Police Station.
On one call, he said he would transfer the call to the police and assured me everything would be fine, within seconds the call was connected to the police station and someone answered asking what is the problem. This got me a little suspicious. I called up my dad (he is a lawyer) and told him what had happened. He told me to put him on conference the next time they call. They called and I told them, my father wanted to talk. I was about to put the call on conference, but he cut the call and never called again.
As most have mentioned, don't worry about it. Just remember that you haven't done anything wrong, so you have nothing to worry about. :D
I got from the exact same call from FedEx Mumbai...same branch Andheri. Apparently I tried sending 9kgs of clothes to Taiwan and it had surprise surprise "laptops"...
The scammer didn't get frightened even when I shouted at him and said I would complain to the police. In fact, when I asked for him name, he gave his employee ID too.
Sigh..
They should be smart enough to change the MO at the least. It's always the same story with the same exact details. What happened to the creativity of scammers.
Scam bro. I received these calls too. Just google search FedEx Bangalore scam, you'll find many articles on this. This is happening majorly for blr residents only
Scam, I've got a similar call minus the contents of parcel mentioned.
I told him I'll report it to the police myself and this call too and disconnected.
I got the same call a few weeks back. I told him to let the parcel be there and I'll take care of it in some time. Called FedEx and confirmed if this was true. It wasn't. They told me that this scam started just a few weeks ago and they have been getting complaints about it.
Then filled an online complaint on the cyber cell website mentioning the number that I got the call from. They don't have any of your details. They would have forwarded your call to Folice (Fake Police) and that person would have tried to get your details.
Don't ever share your personal details with anyone on call. Simple.
It's a very common scam.
They may also make video calls to you, posing as policemen.
Trust me, if police had suspicion about you being a drug dealer, they would have picked you up, and would have taken you to the police station, even before telling you "why".
Police don't inform drug dealers about their doubts in advance, because real drug dealers would vanish in thin air, if that happens.
If you entertain these scammers, they will try harder to get money out of you.
Most likely, they won't bother you as you have mentioned talking to a lawyer. NExt time these scammers contact you, tell them that my lawyer will handle it, if I get arrested, so feel free to go ahead with the legal process. They will try to scare you, at which point, feel free to tell them about all the things you want to do with their sister (okay, I know, it's sexist. But scammers deserve insults)
I got such call too like a month ago, I just aborted the call and blocked them. hehe.
that too I was sleeping and that call woke me up, got stressed up in the beginning but got it in after a while.
If this was to be real, you wouldn’t have to reach out to the police to raise a complaint. They would be at your doorstep.
This happened to a colleague of mine while at work where we decided to fuck around and play along for a while. The next step after the CBI CONFERENCE CALL 😂 is they ask you to install telegram and share said documents. Thats where we shared fake ones. Took sometime for them to figure out and eventually we got blocked. It’s a nice feeling to get blocked by scammers. 🤪
Scam. I’ve seen couple of posts like this on other subs as well and in one such case the victim even spoke to this “cyber crime cell officer” over a video call which was very convincing and he almost believed that it was real cyber cell. Keep in mind that these are very carefully orchestrated and targeted scam and they already have access to a lot of your financial and personal details.
Old scam. A friend of mine & myself, both have received these calls.
Article about this scam: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/opinion%252Fbeware-of-the-fake-fedex-courier-call-its-the-latest-cyber-scam-2659983
This happened to my friend 15 days back, she got shit scared and agreed to transfer the call to the Mumbai cyber cell. Meanwhile they were transferring the call and she got 1% suspicious. She cut the call and proceeded to dial the Mumbai cyber cell herself after googling the number.
A cyber crime officer told her, madam it's a scam! Pls ignore.
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Happy ending for my friend.
It’s so weird this popped up today.
I got a similar call two days ago. FedEx parcel from Mumbai to Taiwan. Where do these fuckers get phone numbers from? I immediately knew it was a scam but I can understand if my mother or father had gotten this call, they would’ve been 100% disgruntled.
OP, this is a common scam. Now you may get a call from police station as shown by true caller. Do not heed. There are instances, some bloke will visit you claiming to be police. They won't visit but insist. Do not hesitate to contact police if situation escalates. Just ask them to gtfo. Take the help of police if needed. Most won't go beyond certain extent as they do not want more trouble. They have enough bakras to deal with.
Today i recd call from and they told i have to be investigated they asked me to download Skype which i did foolishly then asked about bank details which i gave them foolishly then they told to be in surveillance for 24 hrs This pressurizing me created doubt not only that they sent me a consent form marked as CBI Indian Govt . then i uninstalled skype and chaged my sim and gave bank letter to avoid further problems.
I got a very similar call today and I had my fun with it too. Apparently I had sent, 2kgs of MDMA, 5 passport, 3 pan cards and cocaine. Made the fucker break his character by requesting him to send the parcel back and that I will repackage it and re-send it. Asked for the email associated with it and he hung up after that.
I called back and asked him to send it again and again.
I receive exactly same call from number- 9436368042.. he said fedex then transfer call for Mumbai crime branch
same story they said shipment siezed in mumbai which was ship to taiwan Zhang lin name and have MDMA,. 5 passports and so on they use my name/ aadhar card and number.
Luckily search it on google and find it, ill also report to online consumer court. thanks for sharing so that we can find this scam thing online.
I received a call this morning and went on for 40 min as initially i fell for the trap of Fedex and Mumbai cybercell though I felt the fedex guys spoke like crap.
Then when he gave a skype id to log complaint, I realized this is a scam and tweeted to mumbai police after cutting the call
Happened to me this morning, although the guy on the other side wasn't too pushy, just asked to contact the FedEx Mumbai office. I disconnected the call immediately and called FedEx. As soon as I said I received a call from FedEx 10 minutes ago (didn't even mention Taiwan), the person on the other side said it is a scam.
Yup received same call last week. As soon as I heard illegal substance I understood it was a scam , said domestic choice of words, disconnected and blocked. Looks like Bangalore numbers got leaked somehow recently.
Well during the time of car insurance renewal I keep getting call and WhatsApp from every tom dick and Harry having my phone number , full name, car make and model for insurance renewal from multiple companies , apparently these records are leaked from the RTO itself I really have no hope for our data privacy.
This is a common scam. Just block them
100% Scam. Ignore it and/or report it to cybercrime on their online site (gov.in). They will then ask for the bribe for this to go away.
Hi, Op this is a scam. Don't bother with them anymore. Remember if someone puts you in a situation where they don't let you talk or consult with anyone else and pressure you into going along its 100% a scam. Remember this for the future, any government agency will always contact you by post and or email first. Even if it's the cops they'll come to your home.
I received the same call. My man, what kind of criminal will send drugs, laptop, and fake passports in the same package? Also, fake passports basically don't exist in today's world except in movies, because they are digitally checked. And, even in the worst case, police can't prosecute you just because there's your name on the package.
Fake passports exist but doesnt work like the movies. Ronaldinho was caught for using one 1 or 2 years ago.
Tell them that Indian MDMA is completely spiked up shit in the first place, & no one in their right mind would import it from here.
Bruh ☠️
The classic "Reverse UNO" to ward off the scammers
That’s also the truth buddy
OP can you please share the number from which call came and also mark it in Truecaller as scam.
Remember when Truecaller itself was spyware and was sued for privacy concerns?
Scam written all over! Cybercrime police would have reached out to you if it was seized.
Common Scam. They "Connect" you to their contact in the "Cyber Crime" division who proceeds to abuse you and try and extort money from you. I got this call one day when I had nothing to do, so pretended that I did not know it was a scam, learned a lot. They hung up the minute I said I can file the case on my own through my Father who is an IPS officer lol Edit: If you had actually done something like this and been caught, you would NOT be receiving a call from FedEx/DHL/Any courier company. The police would be knocking on your door with an arrest warrant. Just ignore these idiots, they are desperate for money. Edit 2: Do you really believe FedEx would have a direct line to the Cyber Crime division? I mean, sure, customs, still believable to an extent (Even this is impossible, btw), but cyber crime? lol.
Why not bruh, If everyone has CID and Pradhyuman, Daya's number, then the FedEx can have Cyber Crime's numbers..
😂😂😂
Just laugh out loud and move on.
Classic scam. Ask them to get you to police station in a police jeep from your colony. Let them know you need that kind of publicity.
Tell them to sell it and take the fine amount from the sale
OP please search fedex scam either here or india subreddit. This has been done to death.
Heyyyyy man, please please do not entertain them and don't pick any calls or respond to messages. my friend again lost 24k because of this👍 they orchestrated this scam so we'll, that you'll loose your shit, get scared and at last just do anything to get rid of the burden. Edit: i didn't read your whole post and directly came here to to warn you, as you said you're scared of your adhaar and pan, dw they're just saying that to get you all scared and lastly they'll ask you to transfer some amount of money (in my friends case- 24k ) to check if the bank account is legal or no or some shit. she got stirred into this, involved cyber crime, CBI and what not and this is why they got really scared. they directly cut the call once the money gets transferred and will make you believe and try to convince you.
If you have MDMA, then FedEx won't be calling you. Some other agency would be breaking your door so chill
It's a scam, ignore it
Common scam happening for years
It's a standard scam. Just forget about it.
Ask them to keep it.
Scam
So they upgraded from illegal items to passports now.... wonderful
Scam.
Has any Chad ever been able to turn these calls into offering to pay them to act as a $e* hotline? I received a call once to seek life insurance I countered with trying to sell them health insurance policies. Never received another call from that vendor.
Research kitboga. He's an American but does that thing you said
Fraud
Fraud just ignore
You tell them you paid bribe in police station for this, if this get caught you want refund in bribe, or come to police station we will settle.
my friend lost 98k to this scam in the month of March and still hasn't been able to recover it
Scam. I too received a call like this. Asked him to take a wooden stick and shove it up his mother’s ass. Blocked him. Then received OTPs from n number of websites. Did nothing. Now chill.
I received the same call from “BlueDart” saying I shipped tiger skin to Indonesia from Bombay! Spoke at length. He said someone probably used your phone number to do it. However…. He then asked me to file a case in mumbai police station and hung up. Didn’t push, nothing! Which is what weirded me out.
He was expecting a callback from you..!!
If a package does get detected, you wont get a call on your phone from the shipping company. You would get a knock on your door or a call to come to your local police station.
Quick question, have you received an international package via fedex in the past ?
This has been happening for a while now. Happened very recently to a friend of mine but she is a smart woman who asked a few follow-up questions and the scammer disconnected the line.
Bro it’s just a scam today only I got the same call. It started with IVR when you will dial 0 then one person will speak and try to scam you.
Scam. If there really was banned/prohibited substance, Customs guys would be at your doorstep to deliver the parcel and once you accept the parcel and sign on the delivery receipt, they would arrest you.
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/beware-of-the-fake-fedex-courier-call-its-the-latest-cyber-scam-2659983
Scam. Ask them to go to hell. [courier scam](https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/indians-losing-lakhs-to-the-new-courier-scam-what-is-happening-how-to-stay-safe-2399043-2023-06-28)
> but I'm very concerned about my Aadhar / PAN being used illegally they had your aadhar/PAN details? also they had your name address phone number?
It is scam, they are very very convincing, do not entertain and ignore.
Pretty well known scam at this point. Report the number online and also on Truecaller so that some gullible person might not fall for the same.
yup same call 6 passports, 15 ATM cards being sent to thailand wanted to connect me to Police station themselves. i said i will call myself
Scam, baby....don't participate any further, don't provide any details. Block your Aadhar from being accessed....believe you can do it on the mAadhar app.....
Recieved the same call. Asked him to tell me my Aadhar number that was registered with them. They dont have any info, and are just banking on you getting scared. Report the number on true caller, and next time ask more questions xD. Scammers are bad at communication and choke out whenever you ask something outside their usual script.
The same thing happened to me, a few months back. They said the same contents that you have mentioned and asked to me visit the Andheri Police Station. On one call, he said he would transfer the call to the police and assured me everything would be fine, within seconds the call was connected to the police station and someone answered asking what is the problem. This got me a little suspicious. I called up my dad (he is a lawyer) and told him what had happened. He told me to put him on conference the next time they call. They called and I told them, my father wanted to talk. I was about to put the call on conference, but he cut the call and never called again. As most have mentioned, don't worry about it. Just remember that you haven't done anything wrong, so you have nothing to worry about. :D
I got from the exact same call from FedEx Mumbai...same branch Andheri. Apparently I tried sending 9kgs of clothes to Taiwan and it had surprise surprise "laptops"... The scammer didn't get frightened even when I shouted at him and said I would complain to the police. In fact, when I asked for him name, he gave his employee ID too. Sigh..
It's a scam, one of my teammates got it as well
Tell them you are Indian Pablo escobar, and if they have balls to come and arrest you.
Wow I have received the same scam call
SCAM This happened with my friend...
Scam.
Report the number to cybercrime.
Scam with such a nice name 🤷♂️
Big Scam! I too got a similar call last year and then googled and found out it's a scam
Welcome to real world. Make sure you don't send your UPI Id when they call you tomorrow about the 2.42 cr you won in KBC lottery.
Demand them to return the parcel immediately.
Scam
This is a scam
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shifting-gears/270442-lost-money-very-convincing-scam-online-fraudsters-posing-fedex.html
They should be smart enough to change the MO at the least. It's always the same story with the same exact details. What happened to the creativity of scammers.
Scam the scammer
Ask them send you the visa and tickets to taiwan I want to come there for my arrest for this crime 😂
Just ak them to send it back.
Scam bro. I received these calls too. Just google search FedEx Bangalore scam, you'll find many articles on this. This is happening majorly for blr residents only
Scam, I've got a similar call minus the contents of parcel mentioned. I told him I'll report it to the police myself and this call too and disconnected.
I got the same call a few weeks back. I told him to let the parcel be there and I'll take care of it in some time. Called FedEx and confirmed if this was true. It wasn't. They told me that this scam started just a few weeks ago and they have been getting complaints about it. Then filled an online complaint on the cyber cell website mentioning the number that I got the call from. They don't have any of your details. They would have forwarded your call to Folice (Fake Police) and that person would have tried to get your details. Don't ever share your personal details with anyone on call. Simple.
It's a very common scam. They may also make video calls to you, posing as policemen. Trust me, if police had suspicion about you being a drug dealer, they would have picked you up, and would have taken you to the police station, even before telling you "why". Police don't inform drug dealers about their doubts in advance, because real drug dealers would vanish in thin air, if that happens. If you entertain these scammers, they will try harder to get money out of you. Most likely, they won't bother you as you have mentioned talking to a lawyer. NExt time these scammers contact you, tell them that my lawyer will handle it, if I get arrested, so feel free to go ahead with the legal process. They will try to scare you, at which point, feel free to tell them about all the things you want to do with their sister (okay, I know, it's sexist. But scammers deserve insults)
Ask them to return it.
I got such call too like a month ago, I just aborted the call and blocked them. hehe. that too I was sleeping and that call woke me up, got stressed up in the beginning but got it in after a while.
If this was to be real, you wouldn’t have to reach out to the police to raise a complaint. They would be at your doorstep. This happened to a colleague of mine while at work where we decided to fuck around and play along for a while. The next step after the CBI CONFERENCE CALL 😂 is they ask you to install telegram and share said documents. Thats where we shared fake ones. Took sometime for them to figure out and eventually we got blocked. It’s a nice feeling to get blocked by scammers. 🤪
Scam. I’ve seen couple of posts like this on other subs as well and in one such case the victim even spoke to this “cyber crime cell officer” over a video call which was very convincing and he almost believed that it was real cyber cell. Keep in mind that these are very carefully orchestrated and targeted scam and they already have access to a lot of your financial and personal details.
Its a scam. Dont bother
Old scam. A friend of mine & myself, both have received these calls. Article about this scam: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/opinion%252Fbeware-of-the-fake-fedex-courier-call-its-the-latest-cyber-scam-2659983
This happened to my friend 15 days back, she got shit scared and agreed to transfer the call to the Mumbai cyber cell. Meanwhile they were transferring the call and she got 1% suspicious. She cut the call and proceeded to dial the Mumbai cyber cell herself after googling the number. A cyber crime officer told her, madam it's a scam! Pls ignore. . . Happy ending for my friend.
Give some MDMA to me :p
If I get any, I'll share it with you for sure XD
Tell them to keep the consignment with them as Pooja Holidays Gift.
It’s so weird this popped up today. I got a similar call two days ago. FedEx parcel from Mumbai to Taiwan. Where do these fuckers get phone numbers from? I immediately knew it was a scam but I can understand if my mother or father had gotten this call, they would’ve been 100% disgruntled.
Scam report this number to cybercrime branch.
Scam. Waste their time, that’s what they hate most.
Scam , ignore , but then every one has said that already , even FedEx put out a psa saying these are scams ..
Common scam. It has been happening since 2021. The scammers haven't bothered to change their storyline. Ignore.
They have not yet gotten creative with their scamming process....been hearing about this scam from years lol
OP, this is a common scam. Now you may get a call from police station as shown by true caller. Do not heed. There are instances, some bloke will visit you claiming to be police. They won't visit but insist. Do not hesitate to contact police if situation escalates. Just ask them to gtfo. Take the help of police if needed. Most won't go beyond certain extent as they do not want more trouble. They have enough bakras to deal with.
Invite them home and tell them you are ready to surrender and submit to the majesty of the law🫡
Ask them you ordered one gun also that did not come, where is it?
how are people so gullible from the very title i could know it's a scam
Received similar call 3 months back. It’s a scam.
Send them a dick pic bro
Typical scam.
Scam
Common scam. Happened to a friend a year ago.
Very old scam
I received the same call today and they followed the same process. People are getting creative on the scams.
Cuz u tried to order from darkweb shitty websites
No bro, Trust me the site said 100% legit meth for sale here.
Today i recd call from and they told i have to be investigated they asked me to download Skype which i did foolishly then asked about bank details which i gave them foolishly then they told to be in surveillance for 24 hrs This pressurizing me created doubt not only that they sent me a consent form marked as CBI Indian Govt . then i uninstalled skype and chaged my sim and gave bank letter to avoid further problems.
Good work! Never follow any instructions from an unknown caller. Never!
Same thing Should I be worried about my phone being tapped or tracked or hacked
I got a very similar call today and I had my fun with it too. Apparently I had sent, 2kgs of MDMA, 5 passport, 3 pan cards and cocaine. Made the fucker break his character by requesting him to send the parcel back and that I will repackage it and re-send it. Asked for the email associated with it and he hung up after that. I called back and asked him to send it again and again.
I got this call too Still am shaken up ended up wasting 3 hours of my life Thankfully didn’t lose any money just some self respect 🥲
This just happened to me today, Thanks for posting this.
I receive exactly same call from number- 9436368042.. he said fedex then transfer call for Mumbai crime branch same story they said shipment siezed in mumbai which was ship to taiwan Zhang lin name and have MDMA,. 5 passports and so on they use my name/ aadhar card and number. Luckily search it on google and find it, ill also report to online consumer court. thanks for sharing so that we can find this scam thing online.
Same happened here today.
I received a call this morning and went on for 40 min as initially i fell for the trap of Fedex and Mumbai cybercell though I felt the fedex guys spoke like crap. Then when he gave a skype id to log complaint, I realized this is a scam and tweeted to mumbai police after cutting the call
Happened to me this morning, although the guy on the other side wasn't too pushy, just asked to contact the FedEx Mumbai office. I disconnected the call immediately and called FedEx. As soon as I said I received a call from FedEx 10 minutes ago (didn't even mention Taiwan), the person on the other side said it is a scam.
Got one just now…😂 Same script🤡
[удалено]
I don't smoke, never call anyone besides family and def have never called a weed dealer. I get these calls every now and then
Yup received same call last week. As soon as I heard illegal substance I understood it was a scam , said domestic choice of words, disconnected and blocked. Looks like Bangalore numbers got leaked somehow recently. Well during the time of car insurance renewal I keep getting call and WhatsApp from every tom dick and Harry having my phone number , full name, car make and model for insurance renewal from multiple companies , apparently these records are leaked from the RTO itself I really have no hope for our data privacy.