Received a couple of e-mails with the following text:
FROM: shipping@dhl.com
SUBJECT: DHL Office. You need to get a parcel NR.xxxx
Dear customer!
The courier service was not able to deliver your parcel at your address.
Cause: Mistake in address
You may pickup the parcel at our post office personally.
The delivery advice is attached to this e-mail.
Print this label to get this package at our post office.
Please do not reply to this e-mail, it is an unmonitored mailbox!
Thank you,
DHL Services.
- DHL will usually leave the package at your doorstep unless special instructions were provided or the package is insured (valuable).
- If they can’t deliver, they leave a slip of paper at your door, as does UPS, FedEx and the postal service.
- If someone flubbed the mailing address, and DHL can’t make sense of it, DHL will send it back to the point of origin (where it was mailed from).
- If the address was mistaken and truely was from DHL, how could DHL possibly look me up by a mistaken address and get the right e-mail address, even if they DID have my e-mail (they don’t).
- The e-mail address it was sent to is never used as an e-mail address, it is used as a ‘throwaway’ address so that spam sent to it goes in round-file 13 (trashcan).
- Given the above, this can’t possibly have come from DHL.
- A file is attached named “Facebook_password_xxxxx.zip”. If it is supposed to be ‘delivery advice’–why is the file named ‘Facebook Password’? The least these so-called hackers could have done is pay attention and got the lies straight.
ADVICE:
If you get an e-mail similar to this, don’t open the attachment, delete it unread.