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Thieves steal reader’s identity using USPS mail forwarding scam

Dear John: What you wrote about forwarding post office mail was not true for us.

Someone filed a “forwarding address” for our mail, and it was forwarded to a Philadelphia post office address. We live in Florida. They were able to get a password from USPS.

We couldn’t stop the forwarding because we would need the PIN the post office emailed to the thieves.

We received no notification from USPS. Besides, if we did, it would have been forwarded to the bogus address anyway. The thieves got a checking account statement and ordered new checks sent to their address. They applied for credit cards and other charge accounts.

USPS locally was helpful, but the inspector general’s office in Washington, DC, was useless. It had zero interest in investigating, let alone prosecuting.





We, too, were told we couldn’t flag our address to avoid a repeat of this activity. Anyone can file a forwarding order online and you won’t know it until you notice you are not getting mail. F.J.

Dear F.J.: Sorry to hear about your troubles.

So, someone at the post office was either careless or was in on the scheme.

Now everyone is warned. What the post office thinks is going on — and what I put in the Nov. 3 issue of The Post — isn’t necessarily so.

Watch your mail carefully. If you stop getting anything, that’s a sure sign — junk mail never ceases.





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