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Researcher Uncovers Massive USPS Scam, Hacks Fraudsters’ Systems

A security researcher’s mission to investigate a wave of fraudulent text messages impersonating the United States Postal Service (USPS) has uncovered a massive “smishing” operation, hacking into fraudsters’ systems after they tried to trick him with a bogus package delivery message.

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Audit Reveals Flaws at Va. Postal Service Processing Facility

Water-damaged mail left unprocessed for months and a worker asleep at a forklift. These were just two of a host of issues including “a general inattention to detail” uncovered in an audit conducted by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) inspector-general at a new regional processing facility in Virginia.

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