Your Package Could Not Be Delivered!

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How it works

A text pretending to be USPS, UPS, or FedEx says your address is incomplete and requests a small redelivery fee.

Carriers don't text you for a fee to redeliver, and the US Postal Service never sends tracking texts unless you asked for them. The "fee" page is a card-harvesting form.

Red flags

A delivery text when you aren't expecting a package
A fee to fix an address the carrier already has
A link that isn't the carrier's own domain

If it already happened

If you already tapped the link and entered card or login details: call your bank from the number on your card, and change the password anywhere you used it. If you replied, expect more messages; block the number and delete the thread. Forward scam texts to 7726 (SPAM) so your carrier can act on them.

Where OpenEFA fits

Texts never pass through a mail gateway. Treat every unexpected payment link on your phone the way you'd treat one in email: open the official app instead.

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At a glance

Type: Text Message Scam
Channel: Text Message Scams (Smishing)
They want: Your card number or your login
One rule: Carriers don't charge a text-message fee to redeliver.

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