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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!
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Yep.
I have gotten those, too.
Delete immediately.
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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.
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Those have been arriving with some regularity for several years. Before that as emails.
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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.
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once you get to 'hotmail', there is no reason to go further even if you have a package that has been delayed
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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.
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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.
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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.
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