My Experience With A Scam

One time where I almost fell for a scam was when someone tried to text me as a USPS worker. They sent me a text message telling me that my so-called package arrived at a warehouse but couldn’t be delivered due to having incomplete address information. Then it gave a link below and under the link, it gave instructions to reply with “Y” or copy the link and put it in my Safari browser so that way I can add the address. Lastly, it said that the USPS team wished me a wonderful day. The purpose of this scam was to get my address so that way the person could commit fraud and do things that they wanted under my name without any consequences. Some ways that I noticed that this was a scam was that the name of who sent this message was a random Hotmail email showing that it was some random person instead of a company number. Second, I already knew it was fake because I didn’t order anything around that time, so it didn’t make sense that I had a package in the first place. Third, the message had incorrect grammar and spelling, showing that someone just typed it without any care and it wasn’t formatted as a company that would text something like that. Lastly, the message really wanted me to open the link with really no explanation on where it’ll lead me towards. So, considering things like who sent the message, how it’s formatted, how the spelling and grammar is, and specifically what they want you to do are great ways to find out whether the message/email could be a scam.