alt Hacker NewsI’m super cautious with these messages like I’m sure we all are but on Monday I ordered a printer from Amazon. They said it would arrive on Wednesday. On Wednesday I was working from home and I got a text from “Purolator” saying they’d tried to deliver my package and failed. Shit! I’d been listening to beats too loud to hear the knock on the door! I ran outside to see if the delivery guy was still on my street. No one was around…and then I realized, damn, they got me (to dash outside, anyway).
These things can fail 99.99% of the time but when they land on someone at just the right moment, it’s so easy to just go on autopilot and do the dumb thing.
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Anecdotally, I swear I see an increase in those messages when I have a package on the way. It seems like too much to be a coincidence.
Exactly. Once I was connecting to my VPN in AWS and was totally prepared for 90% of the websites to throw human verification at me. Then a faked cloudflare one almost got me. It was 3AM and my brain was barely functioning. (it didn't work, only because it instructed me to run a PowerShell command and I was on macOS).
Yep when a scam randomly aligns with something you’re expecting it’s much easier to fall into the trap.
I had an issue on the toll payment device on my car, so I was expecting some 'pay now or you get a fine' message. I got one on my phone, but when I logged in directly to the toll company website my account was in the green. I was _so_ close to following the link I just got lucky that I prefer using my laptop for admin rather than my phone.