USPS scam ?

[iScamp]

Doesn't even matter, you don't need to shop online to get any of those messages. It's just a scammer blasting out a test message to probably tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of telephone numbers. Those numbers can come from anywhere, random number generators, previous hacks of any business that requires your phone number, damn near anything. And yeah, just because you don't shop online doesn't mean your phone number isn't online in dozens of different places.



LOL!!!Just wrap your head with aluminum foil for all the good it will do.

RFID scanning requires a person with a scanner to go out in public and scan for numbers. They have to be pretty close to you in order to do that, which opens them up to potential consequences. Or they can just buy a batch of 10,000 numbers online without ever leaving their computer. Which do you think is more likely?




A little common sense goes a long way.

Was walking in the grocery store. I was in the wide area between the registers and the food aisles. I carry my wallet in my cargo pants,left front pocket. This guy was walking in the opposite direction on the far side of the aisle near the registers. He was looking around, looked towards me and suddenly he started walking directly towards me. And I mean directly, as I continued to walk he kept altering direction to keep me in front of him. Really unnerving. ( I was expecting a knife in his hands but, they were empty). He got really close. I was about to punch him. Couldn't move away because, now, I was right along one of the food displays. He walked by within about 5 or 6 inches of me. I stopped and muttered , that's too close pal. He continued on and left the store. About 5 or 6 days later, I got a call from my bank about suspicious activity on my card. A purchase I did not make. I had to cancel the card and fill out a form from the bank.
Maybe it was coincidence. Maybe the idea of needing RFID card pouches is silly. They're about .85 cents a piece.

Sorry, to digress from the OP. Yes, those USPS messages that something is wrong with your shipment, please give a whole bunch of personal information , is a scam.

 

[72bluNblu]

Was walking in the grocery store. I was in the wide area between the registers and the food aisles. I carry my wallet in my cargo pants,left front pocket. This guy was walking in the opposite direction on the far side of the aisle near the registers. He was looking around, looked towards me and suddenly he started walking directly towards me. And I mean directly, as I continued to walk he kept altering direction to keep me in front of him. Really unnerving. ( I was expecting a knife in his hands but, they were empty). He got really close. I was about to punch him. Couldn't move away because, now, I was right along one of the food displays. He walked by within about 5 or 6 inches of me. I stopped and muttered , that's too close pal. He continued on and left the store. About 5 or 6 days later, I got a call from my bank about suspicious activity on my card. A purchase I did not make. I had to cancel the card and fill out a form from the bank.
Maybe it was coincidence. Maybe the idea of needing RFID card pouches is silly. They're about .85 cents a piece.

Sorry, to digress from the OP. Yes, those USPS messages that something is wrong with your shipment, please give a whole bunch of personal information , is a scam.

I didn’t say it can’t happen. But the fact that it has to be done at close range and in public means it’s not a common way to get card numbers. How many video cameras would that guy have been on to get to you in that store? Probably a dozen at least.

Compared to the risk of data breaches and your information being sold online or even just falling for a phishing text and putting your own information out there the RFID thing is a drop in the bucket. There are a lot of things in this world worth worrying about before you get down to RFID scanners.

 

[iScamp]

I didn’t say it can’t happen. But the fact that it has to be done at close range and in public means it’s not a common way to get card numbers. How many video cameras would that guy have been on to get to you in that store? Probably a dozen at least.

Compared to the risk of data breaches and your information being sold online or even just falling for a phishing text and putting your own information out there the RFID thing is a drop in the bucket. There are a lot of things in this world worth worrying about before you get down to RFID scanners.

I agree it's probably not common. Only has to happen once to be a real annoyance. More common, appears to be skimmers put in ATM machines or card readers at gas pumps. At least thats what I hear about actually happening around here (local police and news media), recently.


As far as security cameras go, it's a relatively risk free endeavor for the perp. What could I have done? Go back to the store, 'hey, can you roll the tape from one week ago? A guy walked really close to me.' He probably sold the information, anyway. There's almost no traceability to him.

 

[Dan the man]

Most security cameras are a joke, as the footage is always blurry. People's want of convenience is a lot of the reason for people's identity being so easily stolen. Ways to reduce this is no online banking, shopping, bill paying, atm use. Wrap your charge card with a piece of aluminum foil. Remember so called wonderful technology also makes it pretty much impossible to catch the one's that steal people's identity.

 

[Dan the man]

Most people probably don't agree with me, but you have to admit that identity theft has grown since people have been using all of today's wonderful technologies.

 

[Dan the man]

I got a email today from ups saying that there's a problem with my order. I didn't open it simply because I know that it's a scam for the simple fact that I don't order anything online. I don't know why people don't want to go to the stores, I don't believe because they are busy either. I worked 50 - 70 hours a week for years and I always still went shopping, out to eat and did yard work.

 

[Dan the man]

I agree it's probably not common. Only has to happen once to be a real annoyance. More common, appears to be skimmers put in ATM machines or card readers at gas pumps. At least thats what I hear about actually happening around here (local police and news media), recently.


As far as security cameras go, it's a relatively risk free endeavor for the perp. What could I have done? Go back to the store, 'hey, can you roll the tape from one week ago? A guy walked really close to me.' He probably sold the information, anyway. There's almost no traceability to him.

There's no traceability, this is why they do it.