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Post office mail preview gives fraudsters a boost
Source:
cnet.com
- Nov 12, 2018
Fraudsters are making good use of the US Postal Service's Informed Delivery program.
According to cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs, the US Secret Service issued an internal advisory on Tuesday warning that criminals could use the program to target people for credit card fraud. A Secret Service spokeswoman confirmed to CNET Friday that the agency communicated internally with its field offices about this issue.
The service, which has 13 million users, is supposed to work like this: Post office customers sign up online for Informed Delivery, and then they receive a scan of all incoming mail before it's delivered to their addresses. But thieves have apparently turned that on its head, signing up for Informed Delivery using other people's names. That lets criminals see when credit cards are en route to the homes of postal customers, for example, which they can then go steal from their mailboxes before the real customers retrieves them.
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