I did order something from Germany on Saturday so im not surprised by this message it’s just weird that the address I’ve used for years is now no longer working, I need to put my credit card details and pay a random 0.27.-, its coming from a US phone number as an imessage, the website is weird as well… am I being paranoid

by Thedigitaltraveler

14 comments

  2. I received this SMS as well and deleted it without a second thought.

  3. If you think ‘I should ask on Reddit if this is a scam’ – it is 99.9% a scam.

  4. Ugh- I got the same message on two different occasions- I never responded
    My questions are what would be the outcome if instructions were followed and how/ who get our numbers
    Very annoying

  6. Of course this is a scam message. Or do you think Swiss Post would contact you with a foreign number or use a shady url without an official top level domain?

  7. I don’t know if Post sends any text messages at all. But if they would, it would definitely be from a Swiss number and any link would go to a .ch (most likely post.ch) address. So clearly yes, a scam.

  8. This is a scam, yes. There are many tell-tales here:

    * the number is not Swiss,
    * the number is not of the Post,
    * the use of iMessage, a proprietary protocol, rather than SMS,
    * the reason does not make sense (the Swiss post has your address more than your telephone number, they would never need to ask you for your address via telephone)
    * the link does not go to [post.ch](http://post.ch) (while there is a [post.ch](http://post.ch) in there, the domain is actually ch-infoyc.top)
    * the post would send invoices by post, duh

    The scam would be that they charge more than the 0.27 CHF, and then sell your credit card info.

  11. Yes, I got one too recently, it’s not even from a Swiss number. These lazy ass scammers 🤦

  12. It’s totally real, obviously the Swiss Post would use a domain like “ch-infoyc.top”.

    Expect to be contacted by the Swiss Police Department within a few days regarding the arrest warrant issued against you for responding to the text.

    On a serious note: I’ve received several of these, and they seem to be correlated with times when I actually DO expect a package. Are they scraping APIs of courier services or is somebody tipping them off?

  13. Yes, this is indeed a scam. I‘d rather just block the number and move on. Even my mom received this exact SMS a few days ago and knew that it was a scam to begin with, as the number is originally from Canada (I even looked that up). She blocked it as well.

Comments are closed.