Rome police are warning residents about scammers sending fake delivery messages to steal personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What It Means For You:<\/strong> If you get a text or email about a failed package delivery, don’t click any links. These messages can steal your bank details or put harmful software on your phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Happening:<\/strong> Scammers send messages that look like they’re from delivery companies. The messages say your package couldn’t be delivered and ask you to click a link to reschedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 The links don’t actually help with deliveries How To Stay Safe:<\/strong> Rome police say to delete suspicious messages right away. Only track packages through official websites like UPS.com or FedEx.com. If you’re not sure if a message is real, call the delivery company directly using a phone number from their official website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Big Picture:<\/strong> Package delivery scams have grown as more people shop online. Scammers know many people are expecting deliveries and use that to trick them into clicking dangerous links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sources:<\/strong> Rome Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=53]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rome police are warning residents about scammers sending fake delivery messages to steal personal information. What It Means For You: If you get a text or email about a failed package delivery, don’t click any links. These messages can steal your bank details or put harmful software on your phone. What’s Happening: Scammers send messages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Instead, they steal your personal and financial information or install harmful software<\/p>\n\n\n\n