Andorran Police Warn of SMS Phishing Scam Impersonating Transport Firms
Fraudulent texts claim held packages require urgent details via links, aiming to steal personal or banking data. Authorities urge ignoring messages, marking as spam, and deleting them.
Key Points
- Andorran police warn of SMS phishing scam impersonating transport firms claiming held packages.
- Messages urge clicking links for details to steal personal or banking data.
- Legitimate firms do not request info via unsolicited SMS; ignore, mark spam, delete.
- Follows ANC-AD alerts on related CaixaBank scam targeting Spanish residents.
Andorran police have warned of a phishing campaign using SMS messages that impersonate transport companies, notifying recipients of held packages due to missing information and urging them to click links to update details and avoid delays or extra charges.
In a social media post on April 11, 2026, officers described the texts as arriving from various sender IDs, designed to create panic and prompt hasty actions leading to the theft of personal or banking data. They emphasised that no legitimate delivery firm requests sensitive information via unsolicited messages. Residents should ignore all links, provide no details, make no payments, mark the SMS as spam, and delete them right away.
This alert follows warnings from the National Cybersecurity Agency of Andorra (ANC-AD) on April 9 and 10 about a related scam targeting Spanish residents. Those messages pretended to be from CaixaBank, claiming accounts were temporarily restricted and directing users to call unknown numbers for updates. ANC-AD urged people not to engage or share any information.
Authorities have not disclosed the scale of these campaigns or the specific transport firms being impersonated. Police and cybersecurity officials continue to caution against these common tactics as phishing attempts persist in Andorra.
Original Sources
This article was aggregated from the following Catalan-language sources:
- Diari d'Andorra•
Alerta per una onada d’SMS fraudulents sobre paquets
- ARA•
La policia alerta d'una nova estafa per SMS sobre paquets retinguts
- El Periòdic•
La Policia alerta d’una estafa per SMS que simula notificacions de paquets retinguts i demana no clicar enllaços
- Altaveu•
La policia alerta d'una nova estafa per SMS vinculada a falsos paquets retinguts
- La Veu Lliure•
Alerten de missatges fraudulents per SMS que suplanten serveis de paqueteria
- Diari d'Andorra•
Nova campanya de missatges fraudulents alertant d'un paquet retingut
- Diari d'Andorra•
Alerta per una estafa suplantant Caixabank
- Diari d'Andorra•
Alerta per una estafa suplantant CaixaBank