Lazaro Aleman
ECB Publishing, Inc.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is warning residents to beware of a fake email/email scam that is making the rounds, claiming to be from USPS officials and including the name of Postmaster General Megan Brennan.
In the email, which is being sent to Americans across the country, the scammers tell the recipients about an unsuccessful attempt to deliver a package. The email then prompts the recipient to confirm personal delivery information by clicking a button or downloading anattachment that, when opened, can activate a virus and steal information such as usernames, passwords and financial account information from the victims computer.
The USPS's Inspection Service is working to identify the culprit(s). In the meantime, it urges anyone receiving such an email or similar ones to do two things immediately:
• Forward the email to spam@uspis.gov.
• Delete the email. Do not click on any links in the email or respond to it.
The USPS, officials say, will never reach out directly to consumers to ask for money or Personal Identifying Information (PII).
The agency offers the following tips to detect bogus email:
1. Poor grammar and/or spelling errors;
2. The email demands “immediate action”;
3. The email requests personal information under the guise of confirming information.
For more information, visit, www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/fake-usps-email.