U.S. Customs Themed Scam

This web page will address a U.S. Customs themed U.S.P.S. phishing text that I received some time ago.
If you are not familiar with "phishing", please review the following web page:

The scammer is trying to socially engineer recipients into opening the website "https://uspsiaunty.shop".
As I update this web page during the summer of 2025, I see that the particular scam website being presented is no longer active.
However, the concepts that I present on this web page are still very much relevant.

DO NOT OPEN THE SCAM WEBSITE

I have displayed one particular scam text in 2 different ways below.

"U.S. Customs: You have a USPS parcel being cleared, due to the detection of an invalid zip code address, the parcel can not be cleared, the parcel is temporarily detained, please confirm the zip code address information in the link within 24 hours.
https://uspsiaunty.shop/usunit
(Please reply with a Y, then exit the text message and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link into your Safari browser and open it) Have a great day from the USPS team!"

Nothing good can come from opening a scam website.

Opening the website might even download malware onto your device.
When you receive a text such as the example being presented in this web page, you may feel compelled to text back a stream of expletives.
Please resist that urge.
The number shown as the sender may or may not be accurate.
The scammer could have spoofed a different number, in which case you would be texting back to some random person unconnected with the phishing text.
Even if the sender's number is accurate, all that texting back can achieve is to let the scammer know that his or her message has been read.
Scams will not always be as obvious as this text.
What makes this particular scam so obvious?
If you search the internet for "delivery scams", you should get many results back.
If you had done a "who is" look up on the website while the scam was still active, you would have gotten the following information:

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