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Do you guys think this is a scam? (lemmy.world)

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Url looks suss. Seems kinda sophisticated for the usual ups fishing scam. Here's the text message I got leading here.

"Wishing you a bright and sunny day!" Lol, I almost want to help this guy by explaining that UPS and American companies in general have disdain for their customers and would never wish them to have anything that would not benefit the company.

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[-] officermike@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

(5) grammatical error(s): "We will ship again in" instead of "we will ship again on"

Edit: more subtle errors and phrasing that feels like it was written by a non-native English speaker.

[-] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

(6) USPS tracking numbers are like 65 digits long, because they expect to track every hydrogen atom in the known universe individually.

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah the first bullet copy with the comma and wrong preposition is clearly unprofessional. These scams always use poor contrasting red warning text as well.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I heard a theory that they put mistakes in intentionally to filter for dumb people.

Doubt that's true, but it's a funny idea.

[-] Lilium@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's absolutely true, they want to make sure the victim won't realize it's a scam partway through and bail.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

Why would they care though?

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

If it takes a couple hours to extract money from somebody they don’t want to waste an hour on someone they can’t close.

Scams are still businesses that care about efficiency.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

You're absolutely right, of couse, but keep in mind that communications is still mostly done by people and people are generally fucking stupid.

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