Fed EX scam

MSD · Mar 12, 2012

I recently sent a package by Fed Ex. It was sent about 2 weeks ago and last night I got an email supposedly from Fed Ex Customer Services that the package had the wrong delivery address and to open the attached file and print the invoice to pick up the returned package. It didn't sound right so contacted Fed Ex and they said it is a scammer and not to open it. Fed Ex said to forward the email to: [email protected]

Now I wonder how did a scammer know I sent a package by Fed Ex or was it just a lucky coincidence for them.

Greenday · Mar 12, 2012

Just luck, I get them quite often in my junk mail

Texasmark1 · Mar 12, 2012

Makes you wonder; hacker, inside job, one will never know. You did the right thing. Don't trust anything you get in an email.

The other day I got a funny looking return address for an email that was supposedly from my lil sis. Didn't trust it and called her. Sure-nuf she DID send it from her new cell phone as a texting message.

Mark

Errin OH · Mar 12, 2012

Doesn't matter,

You sent a package and want it back bacause what ever you sent was important.

You didn't send a package but because they say you did you either want to see was in it or want to know what the deal is thinking someone is using you identity.

Most scams are based on greed. They play on peoples desire to gain something. I.E. buy a 100,000 tractor for 20K.

Some are geared to the panic nature of one to protect oneself. Like this one.

Any communication from anyone requiring your info should be avoided and taken to the source, just like you did. Never click a link in an email requesting you do.

soder33 · Mar 12, 2012

I got it too, in my junk mail. It's just luck of the draw that they hit on a person who has just used FedEx. They have the same sort of one for UPS and USPS.

Goose · Mar 12, 2012

I get junk email messages all the time saying FedEx was unable to deliver a package, when I've never ordered anything that would be shipped FedEx.

I've never opened one, I just kick them over to spam.

DownSouth · Mar 12, 2012

Just a fluke. I got the same scam email and I haven't used Fed Ex in years. Glad you didn't get stung and had sense to call and ask first!

Dachshund · Mar 12, 2012

Yeah, get them every so often - kill them as soon as I get them. I also get a few "snail-mail" letters with no return address. I kill them too. I've gotten a couple snail-mails with OBVIOUS partial addresses (like "John Smith, Kansas City, Mo"). They get trashed too. I figure, if somebody can't put a return address on it, I ain't gonna waste time with it.

JML755 · Mar 13, 2012

(quoted from post at 11:27:29 03/12/12)
......Now I wonder how did a scammer know I sent a package by Fed Ex or was it just a lucky coincidence for them.

They didn't. Those messages get sent by a computer program that sends millions and millions to email addresses in a database somewhere. We once got hit by a spammer that clogged our email system up for 4 days until we got all the destination queues cleaned up. There were only about a half dozen or so unique messages (FBI agent & Nigerian banker, UPS invoice, etc) but the best estimate I could figure based on our outbound queues and # of messages we cleared was that they sent (or tried to send) upwards of 40 million spam email messages through our computers. It was interesting to see the destination email addresses in the queues. School districts were a favorite target. How do they get the email addresses? Well, take a look at your school district websites. You'll see the teacher's email addresses on a lot of them. Anytime your email address gets posted somewhere (maybe even on this site), you're vulnerable to a spammer's "spiders".

So, if you're sending 40 million FedEX messages in a 1 or 2 day period, chances are pretty good that some of those recipients just used FedEX. That's what the spammers are counting on.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 13, 2012

Just a coincidence....

Remember all them "forward if you love Jesus" and and "it's Bush's fault" emails you get from your buddies???? Scammers initiate these things (or buy the addresses from someone that did it) then just send out the email (fedex, ups, lottery, etc) to all the addresses folks have provided by the forwarding......

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