The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
They’re only like 18mo late on this one. So far I’ve seen USPS, FedEx, DHL and UPS flavors of this scam.
I love how mine would get progressively more broken in English. Each day a new text with a new link and more failed grammar. Thankfully they gave up after a week.
I’ve gotten a bunch of these too.
Oh jeez thanks USPS hadn’t noticed…
I’ve had multiple per day for the last week.
If only this were a conversation about orgasms
This is the only reason I have to keep using shitty Google Messages 😡
I got a really believable scam text a couple of weeks ago from a purported collection agency. I’m having some debt issues and it looked very real. The fact that they didn’t say my name or who they represented were obvious clues, but I could definitely see myself not thinking about that and downloading their attached PDF.
Dude I got one too. I even Googled the website and it came up as legit. I just ignored it because fuck collection agencies. They can’t do anything If they can’t verify it’s you. Also I don’t have debt beyond my car payment which I’m ahead on so that was another hint.
Good on you for figuring it out!
What worries me is how many people didn’t figure it out.
Been getting these for literal months. Unfortunately the people who will fall for this won’t read this warning.
It’s been going on for at least a year. The scammers got exactly what they wanted, this warning means nothing now other than to signal the scammers that they need a new method.
I’ve gotten like 4 of these, and it’s honestly surprising to me that anyone with more than a dozen brain cells falls for these scams, since they’re comically obvious.
So yeah I guess that actually accounts for like a good third or so of the country.
They know that there will be a certain number of the population that will see these attempts as obvious. Those texts aren’t meant for us. They’re meant for the elderly and less savvy.
They prey on the vulnerable. That’s really all you have to say.
It annoys me that they use different (probably spoofed) numbers that basically make it impossible to block them
Google messages has done a good job blocking them before I see them. My spam filter is full of them.
I’ve got like 10 in the last week. Every single one has got an “eat my asshole” response.
Tell me you don’t understand that responding at all guarantees you are on a spammer sell list, without telling me that you don’t know that responding at all puts you on the scammers sell list.
I don’t know but he’s making it a more valuable resource. He is letting the spammers charge more for his number when they resell it since it’s verified.
Yeah. Spammers love to be told to suck a disk. Known active numbers are worth more, absolutely.
You should also forward each message to spam@uspis.gov (yes, you can text to email addresses) if you want to help take down the scam sites and get the numbers blocked.
Please forward these text messages to spam@uspis.gov to help get the scam websites taken down and spam numbers blocked. Yes, you can send text messages directly to email addresses.
The scammers also do it on voicemails (Chinese consulate, DHL, other spoofed orgs), but I’ve got those USPS texts quite a few times.
I don’t fall for it but for some people, it’s easy for them to not recognize it as a scam.
About a year ago I got a weirdly nervous and heavy-breathing voicemail from “FedEx” about confirming a package address for a relative that didn’t even live with me. It was creepy af, it almost sounded like he was being forced to read a ransom note
Just looked in my text spam. I’ve gotten several of those over the past week. Huh.
I got one of these yesterday that directed me to go do “uspspl.com” from a random hotmail.com email address.
Yes, I knew what was going on and since there wasn’t any tracking info in the URL I decided to go there.
It did a redirect to the correct “usps.com” site.
Whatever happened it was a fail on the part of the scammers. Lol
Yeah my friend got one, the URL was convincing and the USPS page is very convincing, it looks almost identical to the real site including load animations.
You went to the site in the link? Lol what
