I just got a big ol’ stack of USPS Priority Mail®️ marked as RETURN TO SENDER.
It’s… malicious spam. Physical spam, I suppose.
I didn’t send these, of course. But the return address is CodePen Headquarters, so it seems it was just a free way to get spam into our door. The evil schmucks drop these in the mail to fake addresses, they get returned to sender, and it’s marked that CodePen Headquarters is the sender. Tricky tricky. I guess that’s a way to cheat the system and not buy a stamp. Either that or some of these are real people and they just use our business address to lend legitimacy somehow.
Inside, there is a letter, and a check for $3,850.00 (!).
I’m not obfuscating any information there as I’m very sure it’s just all bullshit and it’s more useful to share all the details here. It’s some confusing deal where installers come to your house and put Canada Dry decals on your car and you become driving advertising or whatever.
Nothing can be done with these checks as they are made out to fake people. Even if we found someone named JASON SHOCKLEY to cash this thing, there is no way it would actually go through.
The scam part comes in where they want you to send a copy of your “deposit slip” to them in which you’ll inadvertently send sensitive information. I guess? Or the fact that if they get contacted at all from one of these marks that you’re signaling gullibility and they’ll try and get their hooks in you some way or another.
There is plenty of chatter on the internet talking about these “car wrap” scams, so apparently ain’t nothing new here.