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From 2024, but funny to read....

What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we're all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

But as this article points out - that's not always helpful when the company makes it difficult to contact them - or in this case, the Duty and Taxes [sic] aren't a part of the FedEx process but a part of the government, so to FedEx it's a third-party issue and so when they pulled up the shipment, no mention was made of it (that's my theory why that happened).

Your advice is good - I'm just saying it won't always work. heh. But it is the thing you must do unless you recognize the message source/content and even then, better to just log in separately. heh