"USPS: your package is held." "Unpaid toll: pay $6.99 now." These texts go to millions of phones a day, and the links steal cards and passwords.
USPS doesn't text you for money. Toll companies don't collect by text. Your bank doesn't send login links. If a text wants you to tap a link and pay or sign in, it's a scam. Delete it.
A held package, an unpaid toll, a bank alert, a "suspended" streaming account. Small enough to seem plausible, urgent enough to act on.
usps-delivery-fix.com, toll-pay-co.net. Real-ish words, wrong site. On a phone screen, hard to spot.
You "pay" $1.25 to release a package. Criminals now have your card number, and often your login too.
Card fraud, drained accounts, or your info sold on. Some links install fake apps that read everything on the phone.
Never tap links in unexpected texts. No exceptions.
Check directly: open the real USPS/UPS/bank app or type the site yourself.
Forward scam texts to 7726 (SPAM), then block and delete.
Warn your family. Parents and kids get these too, and one shared card means one shared problem.
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