USPS package delivery text scam costs Mizzou grad [Video]

It starts with a simple text message, and your money and personal information can disappear as soon as you open it.It happened to a University of Missouri grad when she received a USPS text message link.”The link looked legit to me,” said Carolyn Russell. “I thought it was real.”Russell was packing to relocate to Chicago, where she landed a new role as a speech-language pathologist.While waiting for her little sister’s package, she got this message with a link reading, “USPS package arrived at the warehouse but could not be delivered.””I put in my credit card information, and then, a few weeks later, I got a call from Chase that said someone was charged $313 from Texas.”Russell said it happened very quickly.”The real-life hack on this is to do something we don’t typically do in the digital age, which is to slow down,” said Aaron Weissenflu, the founder of Tenfold Security.”When …