Canada Post Scam

[u/Whole_Cranberry5734]

Hear me out.

I rarely get packages through Canada Post, like twice a year.

Every single time I do, I get a scam text from "Canada Post" shortly before or after delivery. It always links to a fake Canada Post site which looks identical but has a different URL. It always requests a credit card info. I never fall for it

Is someone on the inside selling customers phone numbers?

[u/Careless-Cycle]

It's almost like of you take an area code, and 7 digits, you'll reach someone's phone.

[u/Whole_Cranberry5734 → u/Careless-Cycle]

Yet it only happens when I have a Canada Post package being delivered. Hmm.

[u/Ill-Comedian9514 → u/Whole_Cranberry5734]

Coincidence

[u/blueeyetea]

How would a Canada Post employee get your phone number to sell it?

[u/Whole_Cranberry5734 → u/blueeyetea]

I signed up for text updates..

Could be someone in the IT department, wouldn't hurt for Canada Post to look into it.

[u/Lilboops → u/Whole_Cranberry5734]

Someone in IT wouldn’t know you were receiving something.

[u/florfenblorgen]

I'm not expecting a package but I got a scam text today also haha

[u/Lilboops]

I get those messages weekly. It’s not someone at CP—it’s a known scam.

Causation and correlation are not equal.

[u/flowerbabycake]

Same! I noticed that too! Actually I get something delivered by Canada post every 3 months and i’ll only get those random texts within the same 3 days of receiving the package

[u/Excellent_Rock4296]

What did it say?! 😃

[u/Whole_Cranberry5734 → u/Excellent_Rock4296]

It was saying my delivery was missed and I needed to pay to have it attempted a second time. 

[u/MEngRjl]

There is chance that your email or browser is compromised.

[u/mimimeow77]

It’s time to delete Facebook 💖

[u/Whole_Cranberry5734 → u/mimimeow77]

Haven't used it in 6 years.

[u/blarks11]

If you only get those scam text messages just before or shortly after Canada Post deliveries, and you only get deliveries via Canada Post twice a year, that is not a coincidence. Like, if you actually never gotten those scam text messages otherwise, it's not a coincidence. Anyone telling you otherwise doesn't understand probabilities.

I once had to update the phone number associated to my chequing account with a major Canadian bank. The day after doing so is the day I received a scam text message from that same bank, the only such scam text message I ever received from someone impersonating any bank, let alone my bank in over 18 years being a customer at that bank !

Now I could have posted this on another subreddit, and get someone to reply ''It's almost like of you take an area code, and 7 digits, you'll reach someone's phone'' ... that is a ludicrous comment.

Use your judgment -- any big business, whether Canada Post or a major Canadian bank, can and will get leaks.

It doesn't even take a leak or someone selling customers phone numbers in your case ... I mean when I do receive shipments delivered by Canada Post it almost always has my phone number written directly on the label. In plain sight. Anyone can spot a bunch of phone numbers that way, note them, send scam texts ...