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Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - Todd's keyboard - 09-29-2023
This morning, I received this message (below) in Messages. The initiator of the message is using a hotmail.com address.
The funny thing is, I'm expecting a letter/package from the US, and it has been delayed. (Actually, I assume many people are in the same situation.
thanks, Todd's patient and wary keyboard
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U.S.P.S - Your package arrived at the warehouse but could not be delivered due to incomplete address information. Please confirm your address in the link.
(Note: I deleted the URL, lest anyone want to click on it. It ends with a .top suffix.)
(Please reply 1 and restart iMessage to activate the link or copy the link to open in your Safari browser)
The U.S.P.S team wishes you a great day!
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - rgG - 09-29-2023
Yep.
I have gotten those, too.
Delete immediately.
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - Todd's keyboard - 09-29-2023
Done.
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - Microman - 09-29-2023
Thats correct, it seems the last 2 times that I have expected a package I am getting this type of message. I am wondering how they are getting the info in the first place to intercept.
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - cbelt3 - 09-29-2023
Those have been arriving with some regularity for several years. Before that as emails.
https://youtu.be/zvfD5rnkTws?si=uZ5yh_YSfMN9UN6L
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - jdc - 09-29-2023
hotmail? :emoticon-tv-015:
You have to ask yourself, how did the USPS get my contact, and since they can barely keep regular mail running, how on earth does some flunky have time to send you some notice ... no one, never.
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - hal - 09-29-2023
once you get to 'hotmail', there is no reason to go further even if you have a package that has been delayed
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - Filliam H. Muffman - 09-29-2023
Microman wrote:
I am wondering how they are getting the info in the first place to intercept.
This is an incredibly important question. If Microman isn't across a border (near Lakewood on member map), it means the USPS notification systems is compromised somehow. With all the funding issues that DeJoy has triggered, I doubt their cyber department is up to tracking it down quickly.
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - RAMd®d - 09-29-2023
It's not the USPS, obviously.
If it was, it would be the USPS, not U.S.P.S.
And hotmail, again, obviously not.
If the USPS was to provide an address, it would probably be a .gov domain.
It a coincidence.
Send out a eleventy-billion of those scam letters, and somebody is bound to be expecting a package that's coincidentally, has been delayed.
Re: Is this a new type of scam (posing as the US Postal Service)? - hal - 09-29-2023
RAMd®d wrote:
It's not the USPS, obviously.
If it was, it would be the USPS, not U.S.P.S.
And hotmail, again, obviously not.
If the USPS was to provide an address, it would probably be a .gov domain.
It a coincidence.
Send out a eleventy-billion of those scam letters, and somebody is bound to be expecting a package that's coincidentally, has been delayed.
USPS often uses .com domains - in fact, I can't recall ever getting email from USPS with a gov suffix. At least, that's the way it is when I order shipping supplies from them.