Canada Post has issued an alert throughout the country regarding one virus-laced e-mail doing the rounds as it potentially hijacks personal information of Internet users, published CTV NEWS on November 25, 2011.
Appearing as legitimate, the malicious electronic mail poses as a communication from Canada Post that informs the recipient of an attempt at handing over a parcel, which he now requires collecting from the Post Office after visiting a given web-link and obtaining the tracking number as well as taking a print out of it.
Furthermore according to the e-mail, which's signed from Canada Post Corporation, the parcel couldn't be handed over as nobody was there to receive it at the residence the user indicated, hence the auto-generated notification e-mail.
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