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I’m super cautious with these messages like I’m sure we all are but on Monday I ordered a printer from Amazon. They said it would arrive on Wednesday. On Wednes
by adriand 11mo ago
I’m super cautious with these messages like I’m sure we all are but on Monday I ordered a printer from Amazon. They said it would arrive on Wednesday. On Wednesday I was working from home and I got a text from “Purolator” saying they’d tried to deliver my package and failed. Shit! I’d been listening to beats too loud to hear the knock on the door! I ran outside to see if the delivery guy was still on my street. No one was around…and then I realized, damn, they got me (to dash outside, anyway).
These things can fail 99.99% of the time but when they land on someone at just the right moment, it’s so easy to just go on autopilot and do the dumb thing.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoYep when a scam randomly aligns with something you’re expecting it’s much easier to fall into the trap.
- anitil 11mo agoI had an issue on the toll payment device on my car, so I was expecting some 'pay now or you get a fine' message. I got one on my phone, but when I logged in directly to the toll company website my account was in the green. I was _so_ close to following the link I just got lucky that I prefer using my laptop for admin rather than my phone.
- donmcronald 11mo agoAnecdotally, I swear I see an increase in those messages when I have a package on the way. It seems like too much to be a coincidence.
- zzyzxd 11mo agoExactly. Once I was connecting to my VPN in AWS and was totally prepared for 90% of the websites to throw human verification at me. Then a faked cloudflare one almost got me. It was 3AM and my brain was barely functioning. (it didn't work, only because it instructed me to run a PowerShell command and I was on macOS).