During the social distancing and quarantining that has become the hallmark of the Coronavirus pandemic, deliveries by UPS, Federal Express, Amazon and others became the primary way many of us are did all or almost all of our shopping.  With so many people having goods delivered, scammers, posing as delivery companies are taking advantage of this fact by sending out phishing emails and text messages in which they attempt to lure people into clicking on links or downloading attachments that will install dangerous malware on to the phones and computers of their victims.  Often these emails indicate that in order to receive a pending shipment, you must confirm information in an attached file.  In other instances, you are told that there was a labeling error and you need to confirm information by downloading and responding to an attachment.   In yet other instances, you are told there is a delay in the shipping of your package and instructed to click on a link or download an attachment for more information. Some of these emails may even contain a statement that the email was scanned for security purposes and found not to contain any malicious files or links, however, you can never rely on such a statement.  The following email is one presently circulating that appears to come from UPS and indicates that a package has not been delivered to you because of “lack of postage” which is a term never used by UPS.  If you click on the link where it indicates “Continue” you will either be lured into providing credit card information or download malware.  If you hover your mouse over the link (which I have disabled) you would have seen that the site to which it would take you has no relation to UPS.

Here is the email presently being circulated.  I have disabled the link and removed the name of the Scamicide reader who sent it to us.