For more information regarding our privacy policies visit /privacypolicy. Postal Service auditor for law enforcement purposes, to labor organizations as required by applicable law incident to legal proceedings involving the Postal Service to government agencies in connection with decisions as necessary to agents or contractors when necessary to fulfill a business function or provide products and services to customers and for customer service purposes. This includes the following limited circumstances: to a congressional office on your behalf to agencies and entities to facilitate or resolve financial transactions to a U.S. We do not disclose your information to third parties without your consent, except to act on your behalf or request, or as legally required. Supplying your information is voluntary, but if not provided, we may not be able to process your request. Collection is authorized by 39 USC 401, 403, & 404. It is a scam.Your information will be used to provide you requested products, services, or information. If you see similar posts in the future, do not respond. The post also appeared in February and December. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. If you have already submitted a card number on the fake website, please contact your bank, credit card company or law enforcement.” “We would NEVER ask for a credit card number for you to participate in any giveaway. “It is absolutely a scammer attempting to steal your information and/or money,” we reported on Facebook. On April 16, a Facebook post from the handle “East Idaho-News” asked users to enter their credit card information to enter a fake contest. In the last several months, a similar scam appearing to be from has popped up on social media. General tips to protect yourself and others against mail fraud can be found here. Wagoner says the Postal Inspection Service takes mail fraud seriously and cases like this should be reported here. There are scam companies out there that have appropriated our brand and maybe some of our messaging and they’re reaching out to people with false information.” We’re currently dealing with this and it’s not a postal issue. “There are some phishing and smishing texts and emails that are finding their way around. “I cannot speak to why the company this gentleman is working with, which is independent of the postal service, may have given him a wrong tracking number,” Wagoner says. It’s hard to say how this particular company was able to provide a tracking number without knowing its affiliation with the postal service. Contractual partners with the postal service, like Office Max and Staples, are able to generate packing and shipping labels for customers. Postal Service in the Pacific Northwest, says tracking numbers are generated automatically at the time of purchase. Package shipping label | Courtesy Reed HoskinsonĪfter all that, Hoskinson would still like to know how tracking numbers are assigned to packages and how the alleged scammer was able to trace his purchase to a legitimate tracking number.įloyd Wagoner, a spokesman for the U.S. He’s determined to think twice if he comes across a similar website in the future. Last week, after more than a month of correspondence, he finally got his money back. Hoskinson revealed this information to Paypal and requested a refund. They also will not respond to any email requests or contact.” “The seller on this site is a scammer and fraudster and does not ship their products to the correct locations. “This website … used to be up until 3/16/21 when it was deleted,” according to Google’s analysis of the website.
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like this one of his hobbies” and decided to look into it further.ĭuring another search for the website, he discovered Google had flagged it as fraudulent. As most of us know, if a seller sends a purchased package with USPS tracking less than 750.00 and tracking shows a delivery in the buyers zip code, eBay and PayPal both consider that a delivered package even if the buyer claims it was not received. With no response from the seller or Paypal and no idea how the seller was able to provide a legitimate tracking number, it seemed Hoskinson had no other option than to throw his hands in the air and move on.īeing a retired person, Hoskinson had the time “to make B.S.
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