A New And Slightly Different Canada Post Delivery #Scam Email Is Making The Rounds
Today in my inbox I got a new Canada Post delivery scam email that I want to share with you. Let’s dive in.
Let’s start with what’s wrong with this email. For starters, Canada Post would never send you an email like this. Besides that, that there’s no name, address or tracking number on this email. Those should be immediate red flags. Then there’s this:
An email address that isn’t Canada Post. #Fail.
So far this is a pretty low effort scam email that is likely to have a success rate that is close to zero. But what would they be after. Not that you should, but I clicked on the “My Package” button and I got taken to this website.
The first #Fail with this website is that if you look at the address bar, this website isn’t Canada Post as the real website is https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca. So that should scare you into running from this website as quickly as possible. But let me go deeper to find out what their game is.
I haven’t typed in a single thing and it somehow knows that a delivery attempt was made. How is that possible? It isn’t is the correct answer. But if you ignore that, I apparently owe $2.99. Seeing as there’s nothing that identifies me, I don’t know how that is possible as well.
First it asks for your name and address. You can see that I filled in some information.
And here we go. It’s asking for my credit card info. That’s interesting seeing as the email that I got said this.
I guess they’re hoping that you won’t notice that part. Now I couldn’t get past this point as this website had code to validate that the credit card was legitimate. But I think that you get the point. It’s one of many Canada Post delivery scams that has a slightly different flavour in order to fool you. Thus if you see this email hit your inbox, delete it and move on with your life.
This entry was posted on July 22, 2024 at 2:01 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Scam. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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A New And Slightly Different Canada Post Delivery #Scam Email Is Making The Rounds
Today in my inbox I got a new Canada Post delivery scam email that I want to share with you. Let’s dive in.
Let’s start with what’s wrong with this email. For starters, Canada Post would never send you an email like this. Besides that, that there’s no name, address or tracking number on this email. Those should be immediate red flags. Then there’s this:
An email address that isn’t Canada Post. #Fail.
So far this is a pretty low effort scam email that is likely to have a success rate that is close to zero. But what would they be after. Not that you should, but I clicked on the “My Package” button and I got taken to this website.
The first #Fail with this website is that if you look at the address bar, this website isn’t Canada Post as the real website is https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca. So that should scare you into running from this website as quickly as possible. But let me go deeper to find out what their game is.
I haven’t typed in a single thing and it somehow knows that a delivery attempt was made. How is that possible? It isn’t is the correct answer. But if you ignore that, I apparently owe $2.99. Seeing as there’s nothing that identifies me, I don’t know how that is possible as well.
First it asks for your name and address. You can see that I filled in some information.
And here we go. It’s asking for my credit card info. That’s interesting seeing as the email that I got said this.
I guess they’re hoping that you won’t notice that part. Now I couldn’t get past this point as this website had code to validate that the credit card was legitimate. But I think that you get the point. It’s one of many Canada Post delivery scams that has a slightly different flavour in order to fool you. Thus if you see this email hit your inbox, delete it and move on with your life.
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This entry was posted on July 22, 2024 at 2:01 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Scam. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.