I had written about the Costco UPS shipment intercept scam a few months ago. You know that saying where you don’t think it’ll happen to you until it actually does… well it happened to me yesterday. I had noticed an unfamiliar car drive past my house around 3PM who then parked at my neighbor’s house. […]

I’m sure you guys saw this one coming. This happened after the switch from UPS to Fedex. Fedex was supposed to delivery my package, but they didn’t even attempt a delivery and went immediately to return to sender. This of course put eyes on my account. After that happened, all of my orders were getting […]

Last week I wrote about how Costco was trying to figure out how to stop the UPS scam from happening. Well it seems their way of solving this was to move away from UPS and go with Fedex. Interestingly enough, when I got a delivery yesterday, the driver asked for my DL and they scanned […]

I had heard about this scam about a month ago or so – basically a scammer will approach a UPS truck driver and show them the tracking number on their phone and then they’ll have a photoshopped ID with their name to match the package. If the UPS driver hands over the package, then the […]

Venmo used to have an unpublished (?) sending limit of $10K on a rolling 7 day basis. However, now after sending around $4.5K and trying to send another $1.7K, I get an error that says “We’ve paused your payments. We noticed more spending than usual, so we paused things to help keep your account secure.” […]