UPS delivery fee scam text

I'm glad I found this. I *knew* upsparcel.info had to be a scam URL. Logged-in to UPS My Choice and of course no notice of owing anything on this FREE delivery. I can so easily see people being taken advantage of this way.

There's obviously some leak in the supply chain if only people who order from Apple get this txt message.

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This doesn't even have to be a leak from Apple. Peoples names and contact details (including email/address) are leaked from all sorts of hacks. Apple release new products. Scammers know people will be ordering them by the million.

Scammers send out millions of emails to everyone on the contact lists they have. Result:99% go to people who've not ordered anything from Apple. 1% go to people who have.

But 1% of millions is still 10's of thousands of apple customers who get the scam emails. Nothing Apple can do about it.

Baloney...I have never ever got a phishing TEXT before or since except the one I got the day before the delivery of an Apple device,... that I ordered on line. My guess is the scammers have bent an employee in UPS to provide the package info but Apple does know about the problem and doesnt seem to want to anything about it.

No Jeannie its not your carrier.

What do the scammers know about you...your first name, your telephone number and the fact that you have ordered and are about to receive an Apple device. That's all the info they need to send you the phishing TEXT addressed to you by your first name and....

That information is on the shipping label of the device you have just received.

Someone in Apple or UPS is giving the scammers this information. The fact the the phishing TEXT arrives just before delivery makes me think the leak is at UPS and someone there is scanning the parcels as they come in from Apple.

Apple knows about this scam but, as far as I know, has done nothing about it.

I had the same thing. I am usually very careful & look for scams but this nearly caught me out. If it hadnt been for the continual changing of delivery dates I would not have got mad & called CS. Lovely agent suddenly thought of it being a scam. She was so helpful made my day!!

Did open text but did not enter any info. Birthday? Really?

Wish I had checked here first.

Mad at myself for ordering on-line as could have easily picked one up from store the next day but was avoiding going to mall. Now waiting 2 weeks for delivery.

3 weeks after my Apple delivery I got this scam text msg as well. This time they had my full name and the tracking number for the item ordered from Apple was acurate and was included in the link. I clicked on the link but did not fill out any info. I have gotten text msgs from UPS before about paying fees ahead of delivery but this one looked different from a real UPS msessage as noted by others. I initially got confused as i still have a pending delivery for UPS for something from another comp[any but it seemed early, so when I checked the actual tracking number on the UPS web site it said it was delivered back in mid december.

Apple and UPS really need to address this issue and better protect their customers.

Same thing happen to me yesterday. I received this text message:

UPS. HI (MY FULL NAME),

Your shipment requires a delivery fee. You must pay now to avoid delivery delay,

Visit: UPS tracking link

I also bought something on the Apple Store in november.

In the "UPS" link, I saw a tracking number. I took that number and used it on the real UPS website. It was a tracking number that was used by Apple in novembre, when I bought something

So, I also think that some informations leaked. Hope that Apple will do something for this.

(Sorry for my english.)

Same thing happened to me. I entered the tracking number on the official UPS website and it turns out to be my purchase from Apple back in November. I guess they are sending this fraud message to each group of orders from Apple.

I just got a very convincing looking text that reads:

UPS. HI (MY FULL NAME), your shipment requires a delivery fee. To avoid delivery delay, pay now. Visit: (and then a very legit looking url which has a tracking number at the end.

I knew it was a scam because 1, I'm not expecting any packages, and 2 I've never had UPS bill for an incoming package, that's not how it works. But out of curiosity I manually typed the tracking number into UPS tracking and it turns out it was my iPhone 12 pro max that I ordered on launch day & was delivered like 2 months ago. Somehow scammers have gotten Apple/UPS tracking numbers. Weird.

I also got this text to my phone actually, but it was weird because I purchased the product, shipping was to my sisters address l, and in the text that arrived to my phone the name used was my sisters. Exact same format as you’ve listed here.

My concern is not so much falling for a scam link, UPS is not going to use a .info TLD, much less one that was recently created (WhoIs Record) but how did they obtain the name of the person the package was going to?

From the package. They have access to the package which gives them the info they need to send the scam message. Some bent person at UPS is likely supplying them with that info for a fee. Since you didnt receive the package yourself that wouldnt be obvious to you. Both Apple and UPS no about this scam but have done nothing about it.

I order apple online Accessories which was with free shipping but I got text that I owe UPS $3.50

Me too!

Apple and UPS know about this and have done nothing about it. It disgusting!!

Same scam texted to me. I’m in Toronto. My cell carrier is Virgin. Could it be they got at me through my carrier?