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I have been receiving various spam texts under the pretext of USPS has lost my mails and would like to reaffirm my address to them. The scammers are pretty smart to build an identical looking to site USPS (pretty easy if they copy CSS but change the endpoint for form submissions). Those with the keenest eyes and a bit of commonsense can dodge these types of phishing.

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Tbh at least iPhone iMessage protects even the less knowledgeable from just blindly clicking through these links.

I’ve received at least a half dozen of these in the past week. Every time, the link is disabled so you actually have to copy and paste the url into safari. In fact the scammers even helpfully include instructions for someone to scam themselves in the text message. Here’s one of the most recent ones:

> (Please reply Y, then exit the text message, reopen the text message activation link, or copy the link to Safari browser to open it, and get the latest logistics status) Once your verification is completed, we will arrange delivery again within 24 hours. Have a great day from the USPS team!

Any time you get a message purporting to be from the USPS saying there's a delivery problem and you need to pay a small fee to fix it, it's a scam. Block and report.

Royal Mail legitimately use a custom link shortener at ryml.me, which doesn't help confusion.

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