Smishing is basically phishing through text messaging. Today, komando.com is letting us know about this Smishing attack where someone is pretending to be from the USPS which is the United States Postal Service here in the states.
The text looks very real, similar to what we talked about yesterday on the box, the email from way back in 2020 which we talked about in podcast 18 of TSB’s podcast series.
If you follow the link given in the series of messages, the resulting page will ask you for personal information.
Want to read more about this attack? The komando.com article is titled Scam text alert: Click this and it will steal your login.
Be safe, be alert, be informed.
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Not surprised.
Ups etc has been a target of scams and other spam generally for ages now as are other companies.
Its a pain for all involved and I often get a message from my previder telling their customers that they are victums in a scam hack and are targets themselves.