… In the last fifteen or so minutes, he got an email “message” from what looked like the USPS. BitDefender (bless them) caught it and said, “Uh, you might want to look at this before you even THINK about complying with the request”.
It wasn’t from the USPS, even with the pilfered logo. Not even close. The message was addressed to “Dear sales” and said a package we had shipped via USPS was lost, and he should download a form to correct that. Had a “tracking number” and everything.
Having been doing online sales for YEARS, he knows what a genuine USPS tracking number looks like. This wasn’t it.
Doing the backtrack through the origination of the email, guess what we found?
A (dot) ru. Yep, it looks like it originated in Vlad-land. Downloading the “form” would likely have wreaked untold havoc.
So, all you online-shippers out there, be warned. Vlad wants to eat your computers.