Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00 am
If you get an e-mail telling you a UPS shipment cannot be delivered, do not open attachments; trash the e-mail.
That's the advice of UPS.
A fraudulent e-mail supposedly telling people a UPS shipment they sent could not be delivered began circulating in July and is back again, according to UPS. It claims to be from "UPS Mail Support" and says the recipient's address is not correct. It advises people to print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package "at our office," adding that "If you do on receive package in ten days you will have to pay 65 per day."
The wording is not exactly the same on all e-mails.
Charles Fleming, assistant manager of the Lebanon UPS Store, said the store is getting lots of phone calls as a result of the e-mail. Callers are confused because they have not sent an e-mail package.