Canada has been getting these scams for well over a decade. People still fall for it even though it’s BRUTALLY OBVIOUS ITS A SCAM. Why would Canada Post text you?
A lot of the phone scams seem to target Chinese. There’s some that tell you what’s up in English and Chinese (which is a sign right there, as English and French are the official languages) in a recording and then say hit 1 for English and 2 for Chinese.
I’d occasionally hit 1 for shits and giggles and act nervous about the warrant or my package stuck in customs or whatever they were trying to say. Early on, there would be someone trying to engage. First time buddy asked my name and I pointed out that he was trying to contact me so he should already know. Buddy got mad and demanded why I hit the button instead of hanging up lmao. But eventually it would just disconnect if you hit the English option. And I don’t know why Chinese so attempts to troll them on that line didn’t last long.
Those calls seem to come in waves. Or maybe trolling them a bit gets them to add you to their do not call list and I only get them when someone starts a new scamming shop. I’d like to think I’m annoying them more than they are annoying me lol.
Ive been getting these texts everyday for the past couple weeks. Always from a different overseas #. I always block and delete, but its still happening.
Waste their time by engaging but giving fake information. I mentioned this in another comment, but the volume of scam shit I get went down after I started engaging with it and making them filter me out rather than me filtering myself out like the scams are intended to do.
I’ve gotten like 4 of these, and it’s honestly surprising to me that anyone with more than a dozen brain cells falls for these scams, since they’re comically obvious.
So yeah I guess that actually accounts for like a good third or so of the country.
Same thing happened to my wife. It was perfect timing with an actual expected package that missed delivery. Send out enough of these and you’re bound to get a few hits from people in the exact scenario you’re scamming for.
Honestly, this is just an unfortunate artifact of the ubiquitous nature of technology these days, and the fact that most people don’t think too hard about what’s actually happening or how this crazy amalgamation of information and services operates, and simply consider it “convenient magic”.
Same here. My teen ordered something that was supposed to arrive this coming weekend. However it arrived early by USPS and the first I learned about it was when he got that scam text. I told him it looked like a scam, but I checked the real tracking number and the package was delivered.
I wonder if they have a data source for real deliveries to target - the online store did use some third party tracker that I accidentally clicked on before going to USPS
They know that there will be a certain number of the population that will see these attempts as obvious. Those texts aren’t meant for us. They’re meant for the elderly and less savvy.
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