Security researchers have lately alerted that e-mail scammers are misusing the name of USPS (United States Postal Service) for gaining admission into people's sensitive personal data, thus published postalnews on November 18, 2011.
Displaying the subject line "USPS Delivery Failure Notification," the fake electronic mails have a spoofed sender's address such that the messages appear to originate from
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. Moreover, the e-mails notify recipients that because of a wrong address given, USPS couldn't hand over the parcels, which they sent some days back. Subsequently, by directing recipients for viewing a given attachment having the shipping mark, the e-mails say they can gather the parcels from a post office whose name, however, is not mentioned.
Furthermore, the e-mails provide a web-link, which recipients are directed for clicking so they can know the time the parcel was handed over. However, postal officials caution netizens that they shouldn't follow the web-link.
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