Another USPS Smishing Campaign - this time targets by State

And the amazing part here and proof that phishing works is that when I first read this, I read it as UPS and not USPS 🤣

I got two of these. But as I teach clients, do not click the links. Go to your account on the service and log in there. If the message is real, you should be able to find the info on the company’s website.

Smishing? When did this term surface and how is smishing different fro phishing?

Been around at least 5 years.

SMS phishing is what it alludes to (they think they are so clever with names)

I did not think I was asleep that long!  Thank you. 😀

The most famous one is contact us for your inheritance claim doing major rounds here in SA on the smishing side. 

Surely people need to learn to think. If I got an “account” on Amazon for example, if I log on securely to the site, any changes should be notified from there and through there? 

Smishing sounds...icky

@Jamesharris85 

What Tyler said. Smishing = Phishing using SMS.
 

Or as the Oxford Dictionary states,
“the fraudulent practice of sending text messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords or credit card numbers.“

Here’s a post on Webroot about Smishing for those curious types.
https://www.webroot.com/blog/2019/09/16/smishing-explained-what-it-is-and-how-you-can-prevent-it/