The United States Postal Service's Informed Delivery system could be used by thieves to steal your mail, CBS News is reporting.
The system allows people to receive email from the post office with a preview of what is coming in that day's mail. The network news noted people can sign up for the service by verifying their identities by providing answers to questions like past cities and streets where they have lived.
But privacy advocate Adam Levin warns that kind of information could already be available on the dark web or found on social media sites by criminals.
And scammers, with the right information, are able to register and provide a separate email address, according to CBS News. They then can monitor when people are getting things like credit cards and checks and get them out of mailboxes soon after delivery.
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2 comments:
But it can also be useful to tell you what mail items you should be expecting that day so if you do not receive those items, you know something happened. The news has to turn EVERYTHING negative. Can't they shine some positive light on anything ever? Scare tactic scare tactic scare tactic.
No positive when it comes to the USPS. They've already jeopardized all the personal information on over 800,000 current and former employees. Why not just keep the trend moving and jeopardize the publics as well
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