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.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I seriously doubt USPS bought a domain like gflrml dot cyou for their business. It’s 300% a scam.

  • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    your first clue was the link in the text - no shipper is going to miss having its branding in the url. the second was 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.

  • lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Very well known scam. Some details that give it away:

    (1) They used a url shortener that doesn’t let you see the actual domain. (bit.ly)

    (2) Website domain is not legitimate.

    USPS’s website is usps.com. If the URL doesn’t end in usps.com (meaning usps.fakewebsite.com is still fake) then it’s not legitimate.

    (3) Tone: The USPS doesn’t text you like you’re their friend.

    (4) The number they’re texting you from is not an SMS short code number (usually 5 digits). Instead you’re getting a text from a 10 digit number with an area code, which means it’s a person/individual rather than an application or service.

    source: used to work as cyber sec analyst

    • officermike@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      (5) grammatical error(s): “We will ship again in” instead of “we will ship again on”

      Edit: more subtle errors and phrasing that feels like it was written by a non-native English speaker.

      • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        (6) USPS tracking numbers are like 65 digits long, because they expect to track every hydrogen atom in the known universe individually.

  • IDrawPoorly@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    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