Comments on: USPS Scam Text 2024: “Your Package Could Not Be Delivered” https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/usps-scam-text-2024/ Welcome to the Gridinsoft Blog, where we share posts about security solutions to keep you, your family and business safe. Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:24:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=78764 By: Stephanie Adlam https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/usps-scam-text-2024/#comment-29223 Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:07:46 +0000 https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/?p=10993#comment-29223 In reply to Brian.

There could be 2 different cases with different results.
When hackers offer you to pay for a fabricated invoice and send you a link to a legit payment system (e.g. PayPal) which contains invoice, only your money are at risk. In this case, crooks just try to make you pay for a thing you should not to. Once such a payment has failed, you are not losing anything. But I’d recommend you to block the sender and delete the message anyways.
The other situation involves a fake payment system page. It is relatively easy to make a copy of a legit payment system, and then make the victim visiting it “to pay off the bill”. Same as in the first case, bill is non-existent, but this time hackers also put their hands on your credit card info. As this copy is made and maintained by hackers, there’s no problem for them to extract what did you type in the fields on the site. If that is the case, you should reach your bank and ask to block and re-issue the card, so the info hackers have collected through such a phishing will be useless.

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By: Brian https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/usps-scam-text-2024/#comment-29154 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:52:42 +0000 https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/?p=10993#comment-29154 What happens if I did involve my credit card info but the purchase did not go through

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By: Stephanie Adlam https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/usps-scam-text-2024/#comment-14859 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:19:33 +0000 https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/?p=10993#comment-14859 In reply to leslie pena.

Hello, Leslie!
Even having your address/personal number or similar “less critical” personal information, threat actors can impersonate you. Alternatively, you may start receiving numerous spam SMS. They will not be targeted, as crooks who phish such data usually sell it off in bundles to other rascals, but still unpleasant and annoying. And the more data crooks have – the higher are chances to receive a very convincing phishing mail, which will be extremely hard to distinguish from a legit one.

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By: leslie pena https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/usps-scam-text-2024/#comment-14350 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:30:57 +0000 https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/?p=10993#comment-14350 What happens if i gave out my information like address and phone number but not credit card info?

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