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[lovetosing]

I was looking at my email and noticed a message that said USPS could not make attempted delivery on the 20th...click on link to print label to go to nearest post office to pick it up. So me panicking thinking it is one of the many packages I have coming, was one of those. So like a dummy I clicked on it. When I clicked on it, there was like the file link that popped up and I tried clicking on it and nothing happened. I noticed my Norton Internet Security popped up and said it blocked a virus trying to enter my computer. For some reason I read that and ignored it and tried opening it up again and then the Norton Virus Protection popped up again saying it stopped a virus from accessing my computer. Then it hit me...you idiot it is SPAM! Do you think my computer is okay...if Norton let me know it stopped the virus...think it is okay. I am not getting any weird pop ups or anything like that. Thanks!

[kdgn]

Norton protected your computer.

I received that email too but I was immediately suspicious-the date was a Sunday. We don't have Sunday deliveries.

[Yuban3]

I got that post office e-mail too. I didn't click on it because the package that I was waiting for had already been delivered.

[lovetosing]

Oh thank God you guys didn't click on it...I feel like an idiot. I never click on anything but somehow I believed this one Thank God I have the Norton Protection.

[pinkskates4]

Probably you are fine. But if you want to be sure - download Malwarebytes. It is free and it is what restored my laptop after I clicked on a link I shouldn't have.

Run a full scan and let it delete whatever bad things it finds.

[newziesuzie]

The Post Office doesn't know my email address so that would tip me off I think. Also why would you need to print a label to get a package? I hate sneaky spam.

[gidgetgh]

I've gotten that email twice in the last week. I didn't open it, but I can see how people would.

[newziesuzie]

The Post Office doesn't know my email address so that would tip me off I think. Also why would you need to print a label to get a package? I hate sneaky spam.

[sophiamarie]

My husband got the same one with a "deliver date" of the 15th. Coincidentally, he had just received a notice of a pkg. from Amazon, which was "UNdeliverable", so he was in a very vulnerable state of mind. He said to tell you and others out there, that if you have even the slightest misgivings about an e-mail, always check the routing details to see its point of origin. The point of origin should correspond with whom the e-mail says it's from.

In his case, the e-mail routing details did not show USPS as the point of origin and he deleted it before clicking on the link.

HTH -

[scotttie]

Oh yeah. I get those all the time. Fake UPS Fake US Mail Fake FedEX. Also fake FBI.

I NEVER EVER click on anything. Even if it looks legit. I don't even click on links that I am sure are coming from my own bank. I always go to their website on my own.