Also, Amazon and other vendors don’t have my phone number. The tracking code doesn’t belong to FedEx, UPS, or USPS and they don’t have my phone number anyway. Obviously, this message is not from Amazon or another legit company. Hi, your parcel with tracking code KXLP6VM is waiting for you to check the shipping address: /viktdpq.” Here’s a slightly modified version of the text. Obviously, the spammer had spoofed this man’s phone number. However, it’s unlikely that a person who has lived in the same state for 23 years, lived in the same house for 15 years, has six different emails, has used six wireless phone numbers over the years, and owns one landline published on the Internet would be a cybercriminal. You might be thinking, can’t a person that age be a cybercriminal? Yes, he could. The phone number was most likely spoofed because I discovered that the number belongs to a 71-year-old man. The text appeared to be a phishing attempt. What prompted me to write this article was a text message I received from an area code in another U.S.
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