Clueless delivery company

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just got an email from a delivery company that apparently is a real company, but with whom I have had no transactions before. The email was an automated thing so that I could schedule a delivery. Delivery from whom, and of what? No idea, it’s not in the automated message.

(Actually I had a pretty good idea, we are expecting a piece of furniture, but I had no idea who was going to be delivering it.)

There is a button to click to schedule. They also provide an email address and a telephone number, so there are at least alternatives. So I emailed them to ask them what it was and from whom. The answer was what I was expecting, but as I thanked them in return for the information, I explained why I just didn’t click on the link, and that they should include more information in the automated email.

Was I being overly cautious? I don’t think so.

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Overly cautious? Definitely not. I might’ve sent that email straight to the trash. But I probably would’ve made a small effort to check them out, by googling their email and their phone number, just to see what come up.

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Don’t think you were overly cautious at all.

4

Smart and effective.

5

Agree with the above, this should ping your scam radar. Package delivery scams frequently are branded with well-known delivery companies to increase the likelihood of a click-through, but that’s not always the case. Usually they’re after your login information for retail shopping sites, but they’re also occasionally seen trying to take you to an assortment of other malicious sites.