Comments on: DHL Delivery Problem NR.59544

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:26:58 +0000

I’ve received two of these in the last few days except from FedEx. They reference a “The package weight exceeds the allowable free-delivery limit.” (That’s the tease)The next sentence says “You have to receive your packagen personally.” (Poor spelling) Also, I noticed the absence of a FedEx trademark symbol. I’ve been told to only read these in the preview window to be completely safe.

By: j beaver

j beaver — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:31:42 +0000

I have today(29/12/11) received an email from DHL Support with an attachment claiming to be a tracking number relating to a package they were about to deliver

By: Emmanuel Carabott

Emmanuel Carabott — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:31:54 +0000

Hi Baughmansr, unfortunately this sounds exactly like the scam addressed above. Note that the number after nr is random. Hopefully the attached Trojan didn’t execute correctly but it’s better to be sure. Please note that if nothing happened when you tried to open the attachment it doesn’t mean that the attachment failed. Generally virus / Trojans are silent in their execution, they try to make the victim think that nothing happened when in truth the system would have been infected.

At this stage I would suggest you do a system scan using an antivirus solution. If you do not have an antivirus solution try using a free online scanner such as any one on this list: http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-Free-Online-Virus-Scan

If this was your home pc, some vendors offer a free antivirus solution as well: http://free.avg.com/ww-en/homepage

You might also be interested in the following article: http://www.gfi.com/blog/pc-virus/ which details how to check if your machine is infected or not.

If you need further information do not hesitate to post again.

By: D C Baughmansr

D C Baughmansr — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:06:57 +0000

Received a similar but different e mail from DHL “parcel.delivery@dhl.co” indicating their inability to deliver a parcel due to “mistake in address” with a purported “delivery advice” attached to e mail. E Mail referenc was “DHL delivery problem NR 76473. Address on E mail was incorrect but went through aol system. AOL cannot explain why/how message with incorrect address got though. Attempted to open attachment but was not successful. Reported event to aol with Spam Report which mysteriously deleted the entire message from my in box. My spam report to AOL from within AOL mail was returned by AOL Postmaster because of “address failure”

I am not a techie so I do not know if I inadvertently obtained a virus by opening the email, although I do not think I was able to open the attachment. How do I know if I have a problem?

I am also concerned that the incorrectly addressed e mail got though aol to my in box, therefore I have to presume that AOL filters are not protecting me.

By: Andrei Zammit

Andrei Zammit — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:07:43 +0000

Spam messages and their payload are always evolving. As you noticed, first there was a simple spam message, then there was a Virus/Trojan attached, and the trend continued with variants of these Viruses. Remember when there was the breakout of image spam? It all started with some Russian criminals doing some spam trial runs. Once these runs were considered successful, literally the whole world was flooded with this spam.

Now what’s next? Spam SMS messages have become quite famous although I think it is quite an expensive operation. VOIP spam messages? Is it a possibility? Has anyone experienced some kind of load of VOIP spam messages? This would be interesting to understand and investigate.

By: John Mello

John Mello — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:39:40 +0000

The DHL fakers have come a long way from their use of the company to promote Nigerian scams. This is what they were circulating a year ago:

“We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel that contain ATM CARD worth the sum of $2 million dollars is among the 24 parcels listed which is now in our office and also with your name as the receiver despite that we lost your private residential addresss, which is an indication that you can now re-send your residential address to back to the DHL company where your parcel can be delivered to you without hesitation.” (http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings/browse_thread/thread/fc8e98785323a282?pli=1)

This isn’t the kind of stuff to fool many people in the English-speaking world.