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Url looks suss. Seems kinda sophisticated for the usual ups fishing scam. Here's the text message I got leading here.
"Wishing you a bright and sunny day!" Lol, I almost want to help this guy by explaining that UPS and American companies in general have disdain for their customers and would never wish them to have anything that would not benefit the company.
In addition to everything else: for weeks our building has been receiving packages addressed only with a name, a number, S, and the zip. The name is someone who has never lived here and may not exist. There's no apartment number. Our street doesn't start with S, if anything the S is for South. It's obviously some kind of fraud, because what's in the packages are little metal clips to clamp the starting tape holding stuff on a pallet. Not anything for residential use. They ship from various Amazon warehouses but through USPS. We can't get the mailman or Amazon people to return them and the Amazon return process only works if the unwanted package is addressed to you, not some random name.
But I'm now sure as hell that USPS isn't going to let anything as trivial as an unclear address stop them from delivering the package SOMEWHERE. Anything to call it "delivered."
That scam is called "brushing."
Amazon does have a report process for it, but yeah it's most likely to go into the Ai chipper.
Scam. Suspicious URL, slightly off grammer. Classic phishing.
Contact seller if unsure.
Yeah, scam. Ibthough that would be obvious, but if it's not: that is a scam, and there are many like it
Yes
If you want to be extra sure, just contact USPS directly.
Yes. Don't click on that link, it's been obscured using an URL shortener
Yeah. I was getting these almost daily for a few months. Never responded to them and never missed any expected packages.
As others have said, that is definitely a link to a fake website.
Kek you clicked that?
Look man, if you want to understand what's going on there's a really short (even for my ADHD) video right here:
The guy here explains exactly why not to do that - https://bitly.com/98K8eH
You laugh at someone clicking it then paste a URL shortener link....
The joke is always better when someone explains it.
Yes, I get them constantly.
How could you not? Do you buy things so often that that happens a lot? Ignoring the grammatical error of in instead of on, are you actually expecting a package with that numberwhich is not a typical USPS tracking number
How could you read that text and then click on link?
Even if this is true - which it isn't - it's much better to let packages be sent back to the sender than to take responsibility upon yourself.
ITT things that make my chest tighten painfully
your first clue was the link in the next - no shipper is going to miss having its branding in the url. the second if that the url it redirects to its obviously random bs and if you do a whois you see its def not owned by usps.
got a few of these phishing attempts myself over thanksgiving. holiday gift shopping season has begun, the scammers want to catch the less savy among us.
It's a scam. You can tell because you're getting it via a rcs text. I've never once seen a business use an encrypted text.
Also the URL of course.
Edit: nvm just discovered some doctors offices do indeed use encrypted protocols for SMS. So the text being RCS isn't inherently suspicious. Businesses may use it. But obviously the URL gives away that it's a scam.
Just write in the nearest Subway/McDonald's address.
It is 100% a scam. I get texts with this exact text all the time with shady links going to a fake USPS website.
Ive had packages come to the building and the postal worker not knowing which box to put it in so it went back to the post office and the tracking indicating unsuccessful delivery due to unknown address (or something similar). In these cases, call or visit the post office doing the delivery or the company. The tracking number will be the key piece of information you can tie to a partial address. In smaller communities, this wont even happen as just placing a name on a package can get a successful delivery since the postal worker knows everyone in the community.
Bit[dot]ly
Is an obvious clue. Companies/Entities like USPS don't use 3rd party url shorteners...
Super duper scam. You should very wary of clicking ANY link from a number you do not recognize for any information you do not expect to receive.