Antiphishers Anti-Phishers Anti-phishing

Please be very careful with any email you receive claiming to be a package notice from DHL. Unless you actually are expecting a package delivered by them, it is likely a trap.

It will be from DHL email address (forging the 'from address' is trivial) and ask you to open an attachment for more information. Do not.

Here is the blurb on the DHL web site about this trap.

A message to our customers about new virus Infostealer.Banker.C
Posted on Sep 22, 2009
Please be advised that if you received an email suggesting that DHL is attempting to deliver a package and asking that you open the email attachment in order to affect delivery, the email is fraudulent, contains a virus, and the package does not exist. Please do not open the attachment. This is due to the Infostealer.Banker.C virus, which has been confirmed to be a real virus attached to a fraudulent email.
This virus is not coming from DHL – the authors of the malicious email virus are only using the DHL name in their message to grab user's attention. We apologize for any inconvenience.