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Fake "USPS Email Containing Confidential Personal Information" Messages
Fake USPS Email Containing Confidential Personal Information Messages

United States Postal Service (USPS) customers are asked to be on the lookout for fake "Email Containing Confidential Personal Information" messages like the one below, which claim there is some delivery problem or an email containing confidential personal information was sent to you. Some of the fake emails contain links to spam and phishing websites.

Therefore, United States Postal Service (USPS) customers should always go directly to www.usps.com and sign into their accounts from there, instead of clicking on a link in an email message that may take them to a fake website.

A Fake "USPS Email Containing Confidential Personal Information" Message

From: USPS <dvyqo@francenet.fr>

Date: January 14, 2019 at 11:11 AM

Subject: An email containing confidential personal information was sent to you

USPS.COM

en-US

We have sent you a message

Our companys courier couldn't make the delivery

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