Unexpected Text message

Today I got a really interesting text from (347)268-9158 and the Message contained:

Eamon, Urgent alert about the USPS shipment 5K24F6 from 7/17/2020. Click : sj1v.info/[hidden]

I’ve always believed that you should never click anything that you didn’t expect to receive.   I was at work at the time so I decided to wait till I got home to try to figure out this out.   I did my usually searched for the message on Google maybe someone else commented about this also.   That came back with nothing.   So my next option was to see if I could find out where this url was going to so I went to a URL expander such as CheckShortURL because I thought it might be a shortened URL.   It couldn’t find out the expanded URL.

Deeper Look

I decided to check out this domain because I was curious about a url that didn’t look like a normal URL.  So I did a WHOIS Lookup with Whois.net and I got this information about the domain:

You can see some very important information about this domain.   For instances you can see when this was created which was a day ago.   It seems kind of strange to create this domain a day ago.   I have always said don’t click links.

Do not Click

I can’t express how much you should not click links that you didn’t ask for or from unknown numbers such as this.   I have my thoughts that it tries to compromise your phone and get a virus or something in your phone.   I serious doubt a new website would send me to a new site about an order that I supposedly did in June or July!   If in doubt always GOOGLE the number or google the message to see what others might have to say about the message.