A Canada Customs Text Message #Scam Is Making The Rounds… And This #Scam Is In The US As Well
Just this morning after taking a look at this scam, I came across a text message scam that is in Canada. It starts with this text message:
Some random observations here:
This was sent as an iMessage. That means the sender can potentially see if you’ve read this or not. Though they want you to reply with a “Y” so that they are sure that the number that they sent it to is live or not.
The fact that this is an iMessage also makes it very easy to deal with. Simply click “Report Junk” and you’re done with it as it will delete it from the messages app on iPhone and Apple will presumably handle everything else. I recommend that this is the course of action that anyone who gets this message should take.
It’s being sent a country code which is +63 which is the Philippines. Which means that this message was not being sent by “Canadian Customs.” Which by the way is called the Canada Border Services Agency. Clearly the threat actor isn’t aware of that.
Canada doesn’t have ZIP codes. We have postal codes. Another sign that this is a scam. And another sign that the threat actors don’t have a clue about Canada.
Now unlike the scam that I covered earlier today which went away and came back, I wasn’t able to investigate this one as it appears that someone has redirected it to the real Canada Post website. So nobody who gets this message will fall for this scam. But the thing is, this scam is operating in other places. While researching this, I came across a Reddit thread that has this:
Different phone number. Slightly different text. But it comes from the same country and it’s clearly the same scam. Just with a US spin to it. The person who posted this to Reddit replied with an insult that I will not translate. But that was a dumb move as the threat actors now know that this number is live. Which means even if Apple blocks the number that this message was sent from, the threat actors will simply send stuff from another number. But what this illustrates is the fact that these threat actors are acting on a large scale to see if they can get a payday. Thus regardless of where you are, you need to keep your wits about you so that you don’t become a victim of a scam like this.
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A Canada Customs Text Message #Scam Is Making The Rounds… And This #Scam Is In The US As Well
Just this morning after taking a look at this scam, I came across a text message scam that is in Canada. It starts with this text message:
Some random observations here:
Now unlike the scam that I covered earlier today which went away and came back, I wasn’t able to investigate this one as it appears that someone has redirected it to the real Canada Post website. So nobody who gets this message will fall for this scam. But the thing is, this scam is operating in other places. While researching this, I came across a Reddit thread that has this:
Different phone number. Slightly different text. But it comes from the same country and it’s clearly the same scam. Just with a US spin to it. The person who posted this to Reddit replied with an insult that I will not translate. But that was a dumb move as the threat actors now know that this number is live. Which means even if Apple blocks the number that this message was sent from, the threat actors will simply send stuff from another number. But what this illustrates is the fact that these threat actors are acting on a large scale to see if they can get a payday. Thus regardless of where you are, you need to keep your wits about you so that you don’t become a victim of a scam like this.
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This entry was posted on October 8, 2024 at 12:48 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.