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Yet Another Scam?

General Discussion
#1

I was expecting a package from an eBay auction, and I got this email allegedly from USPS:

Notification

Your parcel has arrived at 2nd of July, 2014. Courier service could not make the delivery of your parcel.
You should print the label and show it in the nearest post office to get a parcel.

[link removed]

Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved.

So when I clicked on the “Print Shipping Label”, it tried to unzip a file, but my Winzip had expired. Norton came up and told me I had a Cloud Virus. I had a brief glimpse of the words “Antioch Church”. Hmmmm

When we talked it over, I realized that the Postal Service would always leave an attempted delivery slip that you would take to the Post Office to claim your package, not to print one from an email and bring it in.

One more clue once I looked closer at the email, it came from :

Logistics Services XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX semimarathon-lille.fr

France?

So beware if you get something like this, I am glad I couldn’t open it.

I removed more of the address just in case. 7/10

#2

Yep, those kinds of emails are VERY common. They’ll install a virus or twelve on your machine, or one of a hundred nasty things.

Same as always, unless you ABSOLUTELY KNOW 110% where an email comes from, NEVER EVER open an attachment or click a link within an email.

#3

They come from UPS and FED EX as well.

#4

I always laugh at emails like that, because the places I deal with know only one of my email addresses, and those emails don’t come in on that address. And I don’t think the USPS even has an email on file for me. Neither does the International Monetary Fund, nor the FBI. Well, maybe the FBI does, but I still don’t open them neither.

When I get emails about my credit cards, I don’t open them, since I only have 2 cards and they hardly ever “send” me an email. And when they do, I go to their site from another window to see if any of the “alerts” are genuine. One was, the other 50 or so were spoofs.

#5

Lou,

you should probably edit your first post and take out the “print shipping label” link…its a direct working link to the scam site…people in this forum could click it before they read your whole post and give themselves a virus…

thanks,

Scot

#6

I see it removed. Either it posted that way, or our Benevolent Dictator did it when we weren’t looking!

#7

David Maynard said:

I always laugh at emails like that, because the places I deal with know only one of my email addresses, and those emails don’t come in on that address. And I don’t think the USPS even has an email on file for me. Neither does the International Monetary Fund, nor the FBI. Well, maybe the FBI does, but I still don’t open them neither.

I kept getting one from the FBI … finally I opened it

Seems the FBI had verified my email and I had won ooodles of money and if I’d send $650 to them they’d release the funds…

Check’s in the mail! Oh Boy I’m getting a big boy!

he he he

John

#8

I’ve gotten that one before and instantly spam file them. I knew the first time it was a phish as the PO or Fed Ex or UPS always leave a notification slip on the door if there is a package that needs a signature or such, even to the point where I have to go to the PO or UPS branch and pick it up, they NEVER sent emails. I get alot of spam/phishing stuff, its really gotten annoying the shear amount of that kind of traffic out there. The trouble is that for every one you spam block there always seams to be two more sending you more crap, doesn’t matter how good your spam filter is, they keep finding new ways around it.

#9

got a new one.
the widw of a friend of ghaddafi, whose late husband had died together with his boss. selected me out of all the billions that live on the planet to…
well the rest is nearly identical to my former nigerian princess.

#10

Korm Kormsen said:

got a new one.
the widw of a friend of ghaddafi, whose late husband had died together with his boss. selected me out of all the billions that live on the planet to…
well the rest is nearly identical to my former nigerian princess.

And all this time I thought she was my former princess.

Pat

#11

Pat McCarty said:

Korm Kormsen said:

got a new one.
the widw of a friend of ghaddafi, whose late husband had died together with his boss. selected me out of all the billions that live on the planet to…
well the rest is nearly identical to my former nigerian princess.

And all this time I thought she was my former princess.

Pat

hmmmm… maybe, they had two of them?

#12
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#13

Hey Lou, sorry you got taken. Thats the reason I don’t open anything that comes in via my e-mail that I don’t already reconize. I have gotten several from UPS, USPS, and FED-X but I know they’re all false because the people or business’s I purchase from always sent me tracking information so I can keep track of my packages.

Chuck

#14

Didn’t hurt, Chuck. Just didn’t expect it, as I’ve never had anything get past the SPAM filter.

Oh great, now I’ve got Monty Python in my head singing Spam, Spam Spam, Spam…

I wonder what we’re having for dinner? Spam & eggs, Spam & Spam…

STOP!

#15

Lou Luczu said:

Oh great, now I’ve got Monty Python in my head singing Spam, Spam Spam, Spam…

Could be worse…could be the Ukulele Orchestra… :wink:

#16

Ken Brunt said:

Lou Luczu said:

Oh great, now I’ve got Monty Python in my head singing Spam, Spam Spam, Spam…

Could be worse…could be the Ukulele Orchestra… :wink:

Wanna bet?

http://youtu.be/f_0E-hMDImE

#17

Bag Pipes, anyone…? !!

#18

Yani on the Pan flute?

#19

I have received spam supposedly from the Sparkasse Bank in Germany (or Austria or Switzerland) .

It arrives as a very proper looking mail with correct letter heading and so on and offers a unique credit card for use on the internet plus a load of other BS .

Whoever sent them had not done his homework because they were in German , not the native language of The Brits .

I forwarded them to the real Sparkasse Bank in Germany and they said thanks , they are investigating , and if I get any more , forward them . The bank said it had caused them problems .

I shall forward the next one to my very own Nigerian Princess , she obviously needs the money more than I do , perhaps she can then enter the Spanish Lottery where she is guaranteed an immediate win to be paid into her bank . All she needs to do is give her bank details so’s they know where to pay the Millions of Euros due to her .

It’s a pity we couldn’t make that happen .

#20

I will not listen to the Ukulele Orchestra.

I will not listen to the Ukulele Orchestra.

I will not listen to the Ukulele Orchestra.

I will not