MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An elderly woman thought she was getting a Mother’s Day gift, but it turned out to be a scam.
She told FOX13 she got a text message from what appeared to be UPS letting her know she missed a delivery.
FOX13′s Mandy Hrach spoke with the woman, who said she wants to warn others so they won’t be tricked into giving out their personal information.
“I got a text, and it said I missed a delivery on Mother’s Day. So I said, OK, that could happen,” Mary Anne May said.
May is a mother of two. So when she got a text on Mother’s Day from what appeared to be UPS telling her she missed a delivery, she thought nothing of it.
“When I clicked on the thing to have it redelivered, it wanted my address, birthday and then asked for money, so I had to give a credit card,” May said.
The link took her to a site with the UPS logo. It even listed tracking information and a location where her package was supposedly being held.
Thankfully, she called UPS before filling out the form.
They helped her confirm it was a scam.
“I know people who would have put their information in,” May said. “I think I am a little savvy, but they strung me along for a long while. It made me mad.”
The Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South (BBB) told FOX13 that mail delivery scams like these have been around for a while, but they started to see a huge uptick during the pandemic as more people started buying things online.
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