---
title: "New WhatsApp scam emerges through fake parcel delivery calls"
description: "Most outlets led with the emergence of a new WhatsApp scam involving fake parcel delivery calls, describing how fraudsters are using this method to obtain verification codes and hack accounts. While both excerpts highlight the scam’s method and consequences, Dunya News added that scammers are demanding money from victims’ relatives, friends, and colleagues, whereas Pakistan Observer’s excerpt was cut off mid-sentence and does not include this detail."
url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/4135-new-whatsapp-scam-emerges-through-fake-parcel-delivery-calls
site: HarZaviya
language: en
---

# New WhatsApp scam emerges through fake parcel delivery calls

technology · latest filing 21 Aug 2026, 11:16 AM PKT · 21 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets led with the emergence of a new WhatsApp scam involving fake parcel delivery calls, describing how fraudsters are using this method to obtain verification codes and hack accounts. While both excerpts highlight the scam’s method and consequences, Dunya News added that scammers are demanding money from victims’ relatives, friends, and colleagues, whereas Pakistan Observer’s excerpt was cut off mid-sentence and does not include this detail.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Pakistan Observer** — [New WhatsApp scam emerges through fake parcel delivery calls](https://pakobserver.net/new-whatsapp-scam-emerges-through-fake-parcel-delivery-calls/) · 21 Aug 2026, 11:16 AM PKT
  > KARACHI – A new cyber fraud method has emerged in which scammers are allegedly hacking WhatsApp accounts by posing as…
- **Dunya News** — [New WhatsApp scam targets citizens through fake parcel calls](https://dunyanews.tv/en/Technology/969010-new-whatsapp-scam-targets-citizens-through-fake-parcel-calls) · 21 Aug 2026, 11:04 AM PKT · 85% identical wording to the newest filing
  > Fraudsters are using fake parcel delivery calls to obtain WhatsApp verification codes, hack accounts and demand money from victims’ relatives, friends and colleagues.

2 articles from 2 outlets, 21 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

---

HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet.

Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot)
Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange)

Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.