Scammers are upping their game, trading fishy phone calls for believable text messages

Scammers are upping their game, trading fishy phone calls for believable text messages masquerading as shipping and delivery confirmation messages from companies like FedEx according to web security firm How-To Geek.

While fake text messages are nothing new in the realm of scamming, more people have reported receiving text messages written to look like package delivery confirmations. How-To Geek opened one such message to see what they could find, but warned others not to repeat the practice. They instead advise blocking the sender.


Following the link, How-To Geek reported being taken to a fake Amazon listing and being asked to take a customer satisfaction survey. For their efforts, the fake listing offered a reward for completing the survey; an "expensive" product for free.

The "free" reward still required a credit card (as well as an address) to pay for shipping. The process also involved signing up for a 14-day trial to the company selling the too-good-to-be-true products.

After the trial, the company charges the listed card a whopping $98.85 every month, and will send a new supply of whatever reward was claimed from the survey.

It is never safe to click on an unknown link, and you should never click one you suspect coming from a spammer. If clicked, it is all the more important to not enter personal information or banking information to a site you aren't certain of.

Below are text messages: one legitimate, one fake. The differences are nearly imperceptible.

Notice this one does not have a true domain name nor does it start with https://

This one is legit because it starts with https://
 and if you research narvar.com you will find it to be a legitimate website