USPS jumps to first place as most imitated brand in phishing attacks
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#2I wonder if their mail scaning system is to blame.
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#3Yeah this tracks. Anecdotally, I've been getting more fake USPS "cannot deliver your package please click this shady link" texts lately.
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#4Fuck the USPS for allowing advertisers to bulk send junk mail to everyone for a couple dollars. It’s a daily chore to take out the mailbox trash before it’s so full they start returning important letters back to sender for not being able to fit it in.
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#5Yeah this tracks. Anecdotally, I've been getting more fake USPS "cannot deliver your package please click this shady link" texts lately.
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#6Fuck the USPS for allowing advertisers to bulk send junk mail to everyone for a couple dollars. It’s a daily chore to take out the mailbox trash before it’s so full they start returning important letters back to sender for not being able to fit it in.
maybe you should instead fuck your legislators so they can make that practice illegal (getting adverts per mail without consent).
Where I live it's opt out, so not ideal either but at least I don't have to put up with the trash after adding a sticker to my post box.
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#7The networks did such a good job for so long keeping spam out that people almost inherently trust sms, I've had to help multiple people with fallout from these types of texts.
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#8Just heard from a client last week who had their credit card compromised and while waiting for their new card to arrive via mail, had more of their cards compromised by a USPS phishing text. The scam was basically a text that said "there was a problem mailing your new credit card" which lead to a USPS cloned website that asked for $0.30 to resolve the issue. My client tried two credit cards (each "failed") before finally realizing what was happening.
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#9Site is down
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#10I have been getting phishing texts pretending to be USPS for a few months. I actually almost fell for one because I was expecting a package but the text said they couldnt deliver w/o info, and when I looked at the URL i realized it was fake (I assume just a coincidence, that is the scam, send enough, people that are really expecting packages bite?).
Not surprised people are falling for these.