Consumer Alerts From The Federal Trade Commission
Is that text message about your FedEx package really a scam?
February 20, 2020
by Alvaro Puig
Consumer Education Specialist, FTC
You may be skeptical when someone you don’t know sends you a text message you didn’t expect and it tells you to click on a link. Maybe that little voice in your head starts talking to you. I know mine does. It says, “Hmm, this could be a scam. Maybe someone wants to steal my personal information. Or get me to pay for something.”
I guess that's why scammers come up with new stories all the time, like a package tracking scam we're hearing about. Here's how it works.
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