USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation
Wired
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Contributed by: Drex DeFord
Summary
Grant Smith, a security researcher, received a 'USPS package delivery' smishing text—one of up to 100,000 scam texts sent daily worldwide by the Smishing Triad. Upon discovering that his wife had fallen for the scam and entered her credit card details, Smith embarked on a mission to hunt down the scammers. Over several weeks, he exposed the Chinese-language group behind the scheme, hacked into their systems, and gathered substantial evidence. He provided this information to USPS inspectors and a US bank, preventing further fraudulent activities. Smith's findings reveal the mass scale of the problem, affecting hundreds of thousands of victims who inadvertently provided sensitive personal information.
