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Mailed a package today at the Post Office; hours later, I got a phishing email supposedly from the Post Office ... coincidence or is there something else going on? (I would post an image or the text of the suspect email, but when I reported it, it was removed from my inbox.) I sent a package today from a self-service kiosk at a local USPS office. The receipt printer was down, so it requested an email address to which a receipt would be sent. Shortly after my visit, I received an emailed receipt. Several hours later, I got another email, supposedly from the USPS. It stated (paraphrasing), "The mail you sent today cannot be delivered as addressed and will be sent to the return address. This often occurs when the destination address is incorrect. For additional information, click here." And there was a button to be clicked. I damn near did it, too, as the email had been sent to the same address I used for the receipt and I had just mailed a package hours before. I paused, however, and noted that the return address was something like, "DoNotReply@infoevents.com" and nothing related to USPS or ".gov." I checked the tracking link within the valid receipt I got earlier and there appears to be nothing amiss. My question is ... how did the phishers know? Was this just a crazy coincidence? Does the USPS have malware in their system which gave my address to the phishers? Do they have some sort of "passive scan" on who gets email from the USPS so they can try to trick them? (As for me, I ran full Windows Defender and Malware Bytes scans afterward and nothing was detected.)

Mailed a package today at the Post Office; hours later, I got a phishing email supposedly from the Post Office ... coincidence or is there something else going on? (I would post an image or the text of the suspect email, but when I reported it, it was removed from my inbox.) I sent a package today from a self-service kiosk at a local USPS office. The receipt printer was down, so it requested an email address to which a receipt would be sent. Shortly after my visit, I received an emailed receipt. Several hours later, I got another email, supposedly from the USPS. It stated (paraphrasing), "The mail you sent today cannot be delivered as addressed and will be sent to the return address. This often occurs when the destination address is incorrect. For additional information, click here." And there was a button to be clicked. I damn near did it, too, as the email had been sent to the same address I used for the receipt and I had just mailed a package hours before. I paused, however, and noted that the return address was something like, "DoNotReply@infoevents.com" and nothing related to USPS or ".gov." I checked the tracking link within the valid receipt I got earlier and there appears to be nothing amiss. My question is ... how did the phishers know? Was this just a crazy coincidence? Does the USPS have malware in their system which gave my address to the phishers? Do they have some sort of "passive scan" on who gets email from the USPS so they can try to trick them? (As for me, I ran full Windows Defender and Malware Bytes scans afterward and nothing was detected.)