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Obtain a package Delivered to your home is not guaranteed to be a fluid process. American postal service (USPS)has been called For false complaints on attempted delivery in the past, and recently customers throughout the United States complained aboutDelivery delays. But do not leave the frustration of the place where you drive directly into the arms of the crooks. In a new warning, managers alerts the Americans to a new scam that involves postal service. Read the rest to discover what they say that the USP will never ask you to do.

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The fraudsters have long worked to exploit people's confidence thanks to imprisonment scams. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), these regimes comeMany different varieties, but they all work the same way: "A crook claims to be someone you trust to convince you to send them money." On August 8, the FTC revealed that it hadGiven a recent point In relationships of people who receive text messages that seem to come from well -known sender such as the USPS.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

In February, the agency published data indicating that consumers had lostmore than $ 5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, which was an increase of more than 70% compared to the same period the previous year. How did most consumers lose their money? According to the FTC, more than 2.3 billion of the losses reported were due to scams per impossible.

According to the FTC, there are several different ways but that does not mean that a text of the USPS has a crook at the other end. In fact, the postal agency has a whole service dedicated to the notification of customers of the state of their packages in this way:USPS text monitoring.

To obtain this service, customers must however ask the USPS. According to the postal service, this can be done by registering for text monitoring via the USPS website or by sending a number linked to the agency. But that does not happen automatically. "USPS will not send sms or emails to customers without customersFirst request the service With a tracking number, "the U.S Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) wrote in an alert on June 1.

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When it comes to receiving USPS updates on shipping and delivery of your packages, it may be difficult to say what is real and what is false. But according to the FTC, there is something that the crooks often ask that the real postal service never requires: payment to obtain a restart package.

"You can receive an SMS from the crooks pretending to be USPS and ask yourself to confirm the details of your debit card so that you can get an unvilled package," said the FTC. "The real USPS will not contact you unexpectedly about a delivery (unless you first submitted a request and give a follow -up number) - and they will never ask for payment of a package."

The USPIS has warned that crooks could try to also send you an "unknown or strange web link" in imposing texts. "If you have never signed up for a USPS monitoring request for a specific package, do not click on the link," said the agency, noting that the real USPS text messages will never contain a link.

"Do not click on the links or do not respond to unexpected texts," also warned the FTC. "If you think it could be legitimate, contact the company using a website or a phone number that you know real. Do not use the information in the SMS."

According to the FTC, these types of links are probably only another way the crooks are trying to access your money. "If you click on these links and submit information from your card, you will find yourself with nothing, but you will find unauthorized costs published on your account," said the agency.