I’ll give you points for creativity Manager James Howard, but I didn’t take the bait from your email. I just woke up when I saw your email, and it’s true that I ordered a package that would have been delivered by the United States Post Office that conceivably could have arrived on August 20, but you delivered the email to me today and I received the package yesterday. You also might have had a good shot of fooling me if I hadn’t had an issue with my bank and a possible identity theft. I’ve been a little hyper vigilant since the incident.

OK, so how bad did you mess things up in your bogus email? First off, there should be graphics in the email. If it was sent by the USPS, there would be that bird like symbol in the email, which isn’t here. If the graphic was being blocked, there would be a link asking if I want to download it. You have a link for me to open the message in my browser which is a red flag for me.

Your name, Manager James Howard, doesn’t sound right. I could see the make and title being correct if it said James Howard, Manager but not the way you typed it. A big warning flag, after realizing this was supposed to be from the post office, was your email. ‘Unicomp.cz?’ I would have to say that probably isn’t an email used by the United States Post Office.

I don’t think postal people are called couriers, couldn’t should have an apostrophe in it (it is not spelled couldnt), instead of ‘parcel’ it should say ‘a parcel,’ instead of ‘at 20th August’ it should be ‘on 20th August’ and while it could be done either way most Americans would put down August 20th not the other way around, which is more European. I would also argue I would print the label and show it ‘at’ the nearest post office not ‘in.’

Oh, speaking of at the nearest post office, if you attempted to deliver a parcel to me, it is something physical and has to be located somewhere. I had a missed delivery of a package from post office at the beginning of the year, the post office employee left a note on my door, and they told me what specific post office I had to go to so I could receive the package. I just couldn’t go to any post office because if I went to the wrong physical post office, how would showing a shipping label magically get the package from one location to another, other than physically delivering it? It would make more sense to tell me where the package so I could go there to get it.

Yes, the printing of the shipping label was the key, wasn’t it? Yeah, hovering over it there is a link to a uk.co website. I don’t think the USPS would be using a linking system that goes to a UK site. Add that to the 4 day notice of the delivery failure instead of one day or a notice on the door, which would have been protocol of the postal service, and you have a very bad scam.

I don’t know if you were trying to plant malware, get my email list or what but this was a noble but amateur attempt.