Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
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Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#2Suggest Law: If a company's electronic notification to you is so phishy that a "reasonable man" would have obvious cause to doubt its legitimacy, then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender.
Edit: "sender" here refers to the sender of the electronic notification.
Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#3Maybe its just the hunan brain bad at perception, but I feel like there's some system compromised and info is leaked so scammers know when you are expecting a package because FedEx/USPS spam text increases.
Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#4Suggest Law: If a company's electronic notification to you is so phishy that a "reasonable man" would have obvious cause to doubt its legitimacy, then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender . Edit: " sender " here refers to the sender of the electronic notification .
In this case the consequence is that the Australian government agency collecting the import tax doesn't get paid. Which means that they don't release the package to FedEx, and that you don't get your package.
FedEx needs to do a better job with these notifications. At the very least they need to hire a copywriter.
Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#5Maybe FedEx sees better results and gets more payments from appearing scammy? Scammers seem to do alright.
I know we tech people think this is type of messaging is ridiculous, but I’m constantly pulling less technical friends and family away from crap like this. Half a dozen have asked me about Elon Musk’s crypto trading breakthrough.
Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#6Suggest Law: If a company's electronic notification to you is so phishy that a "reasonable man" would have obvious cause to doubt its legitimacy, then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender . Edit: " sender " here refers to the sender of the electronic notification .
Any time the law sets things like "reasonable" it's a quagmire.
For every utterance of "reasonable" in law you can be sure over $1B of laywer fees have been (or will be) spent.
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#7I know this comes down to institutional incompetency, but at some point there was a singular human person putting the template content the SMS message in question was generated from into some computer system somewhere and I genuinely wonder what was going on in their head that made them string the words together in this way. You'd have to give it a true, earnest shot to make it worse.
Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#8Maybe its just the hunan brain bad at perception, but I feel like there's some system compromised and info is leaked so scammers know when you are expecting a package because FedEx/USPS spam text increases.
But in a modern day and age, when aren’t you expecting a package?
Nearly 100% of the time, I am expecting a notification from Canada Post or Amazon (FedEx less frequently, but still).
Even outside of that, you can often predict when people are expecting a package. Christmas. After various sales weeks.
Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#9Not that I’m endorsing the use of smart phones, but FedEx does have a mobile application. Why not just use that for notifications regarding deliveries?
Re: Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
#10Suggest Law: If a company's electronic notification to you is so phishy that a "reasonable man" would have obvious cause to doubt its legitimacy, then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender . Edit: " sender " here refers to the sender of the electronic notification .
> then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender.
They are, since non compliance will either result in destruction of the package or sending it back (differs a bit per country and type of goods).
It's a bit sad there are no easy ways to prepay taxes and it's hit or miss if you get checked. I'm glad the EU figured it out and have almost no weird surprises any more, except from the Uniteds (states and kingdom).