FedEx Phishing Scam - do not be deceived

[jmowreader]

In recent weeks there have been a huge amount of emails claiming to be from "FedEx" that say they can't deliver a package to you because they don't have certain necessary information.

DO NOT DO THIS! FedEx receives all the information they need to deliver a package to you when they accept it for shipping, and they don't send their customers unsolicited emails.

http://www.fedex.com/us/update2.html

Please make everyone you know aware of this. With the upcoming end-of-year holidays a lot of people will be fooled into giving up their personal information.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I get that crap all the time from a lot of places and it goes straight to the trash bin.

[2naSalit]

2. I got a call this evening...

not about FedEx but concerning "my credit card"... I don't have credit cards. And just when I thought I was done getting calls, got tons of them for months then they stopped about three weeks ago.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Not just FedEx, either...

BOLO, scammers and phishers love to operate this time of year.

[hlthe2b]

4. And THIS is why you track all packages.. There are a number of apps and of course

you can sign up with Fedx and UPS directly to get updates for many of them.

It takes a few seconds to enter in the info, but then I can track everything I have shipped and everything being shipped to me, no matter the shipper.

Of course whenever there is an "exception" noted, it will tell you if there is a problem and you an call them directly. And, yes, while the OP is discussing an obvious scam, I have had packages where some error left off part of the address. To wait for the shipper to EVENTUALLY clear it up can take weeks, so calling UPS directly makes a difference.

[peekaloo]

5. Those "notices" always show up in my junk folder.

I point and laugh.

[LeftInTX]

6. All the time here...Amazon, UPS, "my bank" (sometimes it is my bank, but it's Phishing)