{"id":8610,"date":"2025-11-21T05:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/scam-usps-and-e-z-pass-texts-and-websites-html\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:03:39","slug":"scam-usps-and-e-z-pass-texts-and-websites-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/scam-usps-and-e-z-pass-texts-and-websites-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Google has filed a complaint in court that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/11\/google-vows-to-stop-scam-e-z-pass-and-usps-texts-plaguing-americans\/\">details the scam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a complaint filed Wednesday, the tech giant accused \u201ca cybercriminal group in China\u201d of selling \u201cphishing for dummies\u201d kits. The kits help unsavvy fraudsters easily \u201cexecute a large-scale phishing campaign,\u201d tricking hordes of unsuspecting people into \u201cdisclosing sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, or banking information, often by impersonating well-known brands, government agencies, or even people the victim knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These branded \u201cLighthouse\u201d kits offer two versions of software, depending on whether bad actors want to launch SMS and e-commerce scams. \u201cMembers may subscribe to weekly, monthly, seasonal, annual, or permanent licenses,\u201d Google alleged. Kits include \u201chundreds of templates for fake websites, domain set-up tools for those fake websites, and other features designed to dupe victims into believing they are entering sensitive information on a legitimate website.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s filing said the scams often begin with a text claiming that a toll fee is overdue or a small fee must be paid to redeliver a package. Other times they appear as ads\u2014\u00adsometimes even Google ads, until Google detected and suspended accounts\u2014\u00adluring victims by mimicking popular brands. Anyone who clicks will be redirected to a website to input sensitive information; the sites often claim to accept payments from trusted wallets like Google Pay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/11\/scam-usps-and-e-z-pass-texts-and-websites.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites Google has filed a complaint in court that details the scam: In a complaint filed Wednesday, the tech giant accused \u201ca cybercriminal group in China\u201d of selling \u201cphishing for dummies\u201d kits. The kits help unsavvy fraudsters easily \u201cexecute a large-scale phishing campaign,\u201d tricking hordes of unsuspecting people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,479,463,163,124,465,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-8610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-china","category-cybercrime","category-google","category-phishing","category-scams","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}