How does one go about managing to pay 3% of one cent?
The Postal Service is technically a corporation.
Don’t let the SovCits know. They’ll be all over it.
I know, but their cops are theirs so shouldn’t they be part of the corporation and thus have a com domain?
Now, that’s quite interesting. Thanks!
That was his clue that he might have been had.
Yup. Phishing is via email, smishing is via text (SMS), & vishing is the voice, or phone call variant.
one more aspect that proves it’s a scam:
the email offers no identifying info about the package.
It only says “the package has arrived”.
There is no tracking number, no other details.
If it was real, it should give you some more info
I just got one of these. A variation of the word “China” was in the URL. My package should be getting here any minute. Fingers crossed.
“The USPS package…”? No. that’s odd. Same with “the warehouse”. Plus “warehouse”? USPS has Post Offices, not warehouses (I mean, they probably have warehouses, too, but those aren’t customer-facing). Similary, “address information” is just…off. Actually, so is “USPS package”.
I would believe:
“Message from the U.S. Postal Service: A package cannot be delivered due to an incomplete address.”
Legitimate services these days will almost never send text messages with links to click in them. I kmow Revenue Canada has this policy, as does my bank.
If you get a text message from a bank, a store, a government agency or others with a clickable link in them and you think it might be real, just go to the organization’s web page, find a contact link there, and use it. Never click on a link from an unsolicited text message, period.
There’s a Fed Ex phishing scam going around now. I’ve gotten several ‘missed package’ notices, and my wife has as well. All fake.
Not to beat this to death, but most of that is not the part that was highlighted as “odd phrasing.” The “the” at the beginning struck me as odd too, most of the rest of it wouldn’t have caught my attention (except that I automatically disbelieve pretty much any unexpected message of this sort). Also the fact that the message was sent twice, a week apart, each time with a deadline of 12 hours.
Actually, quite a few services still use SMS with links.
Lincare
Duo Security
Kettering
Honda
Are just the ones I’ve used recently.