Something to remember and tell your loved ones: The United States Postal Service never emails customers about attempted or intercepted package delivery.
After all, we ARE the Postal Service. If someone working for the USPS needs to contact you about your package, it is going to be done VIA THE MAIL.
The reason that we are bringing this up today is that there is a very dangerous email making the rounds that appears to be from the USPS.
One of the emails looks like this:
From: U.S. Postal Service [mailto:u.s.postal.service@usps.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
To: postmarksala@gmail.com
Subject: USPS Delivery Failure Notification
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
To: postmarksala@gmail.com
Subject: USPS Delivery Failure Notification
Hello!
Unfortunately we failed to deliver the postal package you have sent on the 19th of September in time because the recipient’s address is erroneous.
Please print out the shipment label attached and collect the package at our office.
The email requests that you click on a link that contains a virus. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK!!!
The link contains a computer virus that could, without you knowing about it, hand over your personal information, financial data, account numbers, user names, passwords, whatever info that is stored on your computer to a thief who would like nothing better than to assume your identity, at least until the bills start rolling in.
If something like this rolls into your inbox, the best thing that you can do is to delete it without even opening the email.
If you want to check on the status of package deliveries, you can safely do safely do so by going to the U.S. Postal Service's Track and Confirm feature or call 1-800-ASK-USPS.
