USPS text scam

[Gobbler36]

Damn….
first ever scam I fell for, caught me when I was in a hurry and not thinking. I’ve shipped a lot of stuff in the past few weeks and thought maybe it was real so I paid a 3.00 charge for my debit card and then realized two seconds late that I bet it was a scam.
I had to enter name, email address, address, and name And debit card.
I already immediately put a block on my card and turned it off through my app.

Question is what do I do now?

 

[Fatcamp]

Check for charges and get a new card on the way. Your card has a hotline number on it right? Call that.

 

[mi650]

My wife got this too, and almost fell for it.

I have her pretty well trained to check with me before doing anything like that, but she was about to click it and asked me almost as an after-thought.

After falling for a microsoft scam several years ago, to the tune of $300, you'd think she would have learned her lesson.

 

[BFR]

I never use a debit card, either PayPal or credit card. Definitely cancel that card and get a new one.

 

[kcormack]

Do not tell

Don Pablo

 

[Grundy53]

They sent me that text yesterday. Must be going around.

Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

 

[Gobbler36]

Yeah and I had an unknown charge get denied from out of state somewhere too…
so glad I turned the card off as quick as I did

it was crazy the link takes you to what looks like a legit usps websit… still feel like an idiot though

 

[Ram94]

They are hitting Canadians too eh. Got one yesterday from Canada Post. The tip off was that the link was .com and not .ca

 

[bushman76]

Damn….
first ever scam I fell for, caught me when I was in a hurry and not thinking. I’ve shipped a lot of stuff in the past few weeks and thought maybe it was real so I paid a 3.00 charge for my debit card and then realized two seconds late that I bet it was a scam.
I had to enter name, email address, address, and name And debit card.
I already immediately put a block on my card and turned it off through my app.

Question is what do I do now?

You already took the necessary steps. Hopefully, you are free from their attack.

 

[Dwnw/theAltitudesickness]

Bought a new Dell few years back, downloaded Chrome..... immediately got scammed by "dell support"- no money but corrupt computer that had to have a factory reset