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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[–] 80 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Is this for real? I would’ve automatically deleted and reported it as spam lol.

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  • [–] 36 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    You and the "87%" of people who responded to his Tweet or whatever.

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  • [–] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

    Yep. Accidentally imported some parts for my car (thought they were in the states, but no, China), got a random message about duty fees. I initially thought it was a scam, but got another, so I followed the link on a safe device (laptop running Linux). It gave a valid address from the shipping company with details that verified my order, so I had to pay or it wouldn't be delivered. Very annoying, should have been told earlier that I needed to pay duties/tariffs so I could plan accordingly.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Wait this user story doesn't say why it's not a scam - you followed a link instead of calling the company and asking wtf is going on.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    It's not a scam, it's a link from FedEx (or in my case UPS) to pay tariff and duty charges. Believe you me, I triple checked the whole thing and it was legit before I even considered paying for it. If you are shipping an item directly from outside the US, a lot of times those charges are left for you to deal with (resellers on eBay or Amazon for stuff from China would pay for those in advance, which is why it's not always normal). It's a bigger thing than it used to be, because it used to be that if the value of an item was less than $800 (I believe, it's been a min), there wouldn't be duties on it unless it was a big item or some other unusual circumstances. However, Trump screwed that up with the tariff changes, so extra charges are collected by the shipping company directly. The problem is that I wasn't warned ahead of time (I thought it was coming from the Philippines so the charges wouldn't be a thing), and that seems to be increasingly the norm for ordering directly from the manufacturer, given soo many are in China or countries we have decided it is a "good" idea to impose tariffs on (which the customer has to pay).

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