Weird email

[Caran]

Received this today.
From Royal Mail (status [email protected])
Our company a$tms courier couldna$tmt deliver your parcel
Status: Wrong postal code.

Location of your parcl: Fort Worth
Delivery status: not delivered
Service: Express shipping
Number of your item: U186187744NU Features: Yes
Postal label is enclosed to the letter.
Print a label and show it at you post office.
Information in brief:
If the parcel isna$tmt received within 30 working days our company will have the right to claim compensation from you for it's keeping in the amount of $5.13 for each day of keeping of it.
You can find the information about the procedure and conditions of parcels keeping in the nearest office.
Thank you for attention
Royal Mail Services.

This is the exact wording in the email.
Also when I printed it I got a heck of a lot more than was on the screen.There was an extract of some kind of a fictional story that covered half a page, then
8 lines in Italian followed by half a page of another fictional story.

How can something be printed when it doesn't show on the screen?

What do you reckon on the email?

[Canary42]

SCAM

[SpikeyBush]

Delete it. Run a virus scan.

[Answerprancer]

Do any of the details marry up to any deliveries you are/were expecting ?
If not it's a scam, spam it.
ANYTHING like this should be binned before even opening (unless you know it is legitimate) otherwise you'll end up with the computer from The Excorcist !

[spotit3]

Certainly a scan I would say. Don't reply or they will know you exist!

[Caran]

I opened it because only Royal Mail showed and I was expecting a parcel.
I checked my order and postcode was ok.

[Georgiesmum]

Surely you must realise this is a scam email???

[Caran]

I do now!!

[Nini74]

as far as i know Royal Mail will never charge you for storage non-collected items. sounds like scam or spam to me. On the upside, I have apparently inheritted 500,000 US Dollars from a long lost uncle in America......

[Ann]

I had one exactly the same today carandrog - I didn't open it, guessed it was a scam and deleted it. Just going to run my virus scan ...............

[Caran]

Ann Glad to hear someone else had one, I fell for it as I was expecting a parcel and it "looked" ok.

[Ann]

I've had them before, and if in doubt I always google what it says to find out if its doing the rounds!

[Ann]

I had one from Paypal - it looked so authentic but suspicions were raised when it asked for my password. I rang PP and it was a scam .......... glad I did. I'm a pretty suspicious person now I'm afraid, I have been conned in the past (1970s) with a tarmac drive....................I was furious that I could be so gullible, but there were not so many instances in those days.

[Caran]

Never though of that, how much of the text do you have to download?

[Ann]

See here carandrog
http://www.royalmail....ity/suspicious-emails

[thenry]

Fort Worth ? You could have missed out on a gold bar !

[ABerrant]

I believe thenry is thinking of the US Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

My default position is to be wary of all emails and look out for the clues that inevitably signpost a wrong-un... such as a "Royal Mail" parcel being held locally in Fort Worth, Texas and storage charges in US Dollars!

[thenry]

Don't forget the Chisholm trail !