COLORADO SPRINGS — Was there a holiday package you didn’t know about that got lost or stopped on its way to your home? This uncertainty is something fraudsters are hoping to capitalize on right now. News5 spoke with a viewer about her experience with a suspicious text.
If you own a cell phone odds are you’ve received random text messages from a fraudster. They’ll pretend to be from your bank, law enforcement, or in some cases government agencies. In this case the text appears to be from the United States Postal Service and contains a suspicious link that postal inspectors say could lead to trouble.
”First of all it almost got me because of the link that was provided and then I was thinking I do have packages out there,” said News5 viewer Sabine Parkinson.
Parkinson reached out to News5 because this random text message appearing to be from the USPS claimed a package intended for her was stopped and the text included a link asking her for more information.
”Even though there was a link it wasn’t right. It felt wrong. I also went to Google and I typed in that link and I typed in fake and it didn’t come back as a valid address,” said Parkinson.
It turns out she was right. News5 did some research on this and found this information posted online by the United States Postal Inspection Service
“USPS will not send customers text messages or e-mails without a customer first requesting the service with a tracking number, and it will NOT contain a link. So, if you did…
