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Pbpix · **Posted:** Mar Fri 03, 2017 11:06 pm

Today I received an email with this content and a downloadable zip file which I did NOT download or unzip.
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Dear Customer,

Your item has arrived at March 02, but our courier was not able to deliver the parcel.

You can download the shipment label attached!

All the best,
Victor Klein,
UPS Parcels Delivery Agent.
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You can't trust ANYthing anymore.
Right?

I am expecting a pkg of some junk I bought on Ebay .... but I doubt this is that.... in fact I just checked Ebay and don't even see that item... so perhaps I never completed that purchase... so it can't be the ebay thing.

Mike Toon · **Posted:** Mar Fri 03, 2017 11:51 pm

Why not run a virus scan on the zip?

wazz · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 12:00 am

Why not use UPS tracking if you have the number. And consider how UPS would have gotten your email address, to begin with. Or that there are no details about the "package". I think I have gotten one of those mails and of course I had nothing on order. I guess if you can fool some of the people some of the time, you can really make a killing if your list of potential suckers is large enough.

Brother Jonathan · **Joined:** Aug Tue 16, 2016 10:01 am **Posts:** 39

Spyware or malware for sure. :roll:

Jon.

Rocco53 · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 12:50 am

I've received many of those over the years that claim to be from FEDEX and I'm not even expecting a parcel, let alone from Fedex, they are fake. In the trash they go.

Macrohenry · **Joined:** Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am **Posts:** 2845

I create a different email address for everyone to use. So if I get an email from UPS addressed to say pbpix@macrohenry.com, I'll know it didn't come from either UPS or pbpix.

Pbpix · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 1:35 am

Macrohenry wrote:

I create a different email address for everyone to use. So if I get an email from UPS addressed to say pbpix@macrohenry.com, I'll know it didn't come from either UPS or pbpix.

I try to track who sends me what as well.
But I do it in the mail address
My name is "Peter AMZ Balazsy" for Amazon etc

flyboy71 · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 1:52 am

C'mon, with a name like Victor Klein how could you not trust him?

Seems the grammar should be the dead giveaway "Your item has arrived at March 02"

Pbpix · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 1:57 am

flyboy71 wrote:

C'mon, with a name like Victor Klein how could you not trust him?

Seems the grammar should be the dead giveaway "Your item has arrived at March 02"

Yes... the language is always the 1st dead giveaway.
Anyone for whom English is not their first language always murders our grammar.

Jim Mueller · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 3:08 am

And even if it were real, what good is a shipping label to you?

Bugman · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 3:48 am

Jim Mueller wrote:

And even if it were real, what good is a shipping label to you?

Why you just print it out and take it to the location of the package so they can apply it and deliver it to you. Makes sense, doesn't it?

Pbpix · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 3:54 am

Jim Mueller wrote:

And even if it were real, what good is a shipping label to you?

I know... right? ...lol

What do these nut jobs think when they write this stupid stuff?

fifties · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 4:01 am

I've gotten a few of those myself. With the first one I replied back and told them that the file wouldn't open, and to kindly send me the tracking number. Of course there was no response.
I would suspect that the attachment was a Trojan.

WPPCProductions · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 7:24 am

I dont even look at emails unless I know who they are coming from.Stuff like ."You just win a trip""Try this free program to clean up your computer".I just delete that garbage.

Pbpix · **Posted:** Mar Sat 04, 2017 11:34 pm

UPDATE:

Today I got another different msg titled "UPS Parcel #8923577 delivery problem"

Your item has arrived at February 28, but our courier was not able to deliver the parcel.

Please check delivery label attached!

Sincerely,
Paul Odell,
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