USPS warns of scam involving texts requesting information for package delivery
13abc.com
The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
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They're only like 18mo late on this one. So far I've seen USPS, FedEx, DHL and UPS flavors of this scam.
I love how mine would get progressively more broken in English. Each day a new text with a new link and more failed grammar. Thankfully they gave up after a week.
There is probably a reason for this, the carriers start blocking these, so they have to break the words so they bypass those blocks.
We had these in Finland two years ago, it originates probably from Russia, so we are their sandbox for these kind of cyber shit. Our carriers found out some way to block them and they are not anymore happening. One day our cyber security center just informed that they have co-operated with carriers to block them permanently. I believe the technique is not made public.
Edit: did some digging, so it was keyword based blocking in the network + Europol raided the servers which commanded the malware
I've gotten a bunch of these too.