Renegade spam URL line displayed in old local Outlook 365 email title

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Jess

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Outlook version
Outlook 365 64 bit
Email Account
IMAP
Operating system::    Windows 10 Pro
Outlook version:     Classic Outlook 365
Email type or host:    IMAP via gmail
I noticed a URL in the line below the title of one of my emails from the USPS today. I've attached a screen shot of the oddity.

ODD URL <https://pixel.watch/1ewx> NOTE: This link may be a Phishing attempt - proceed with caution!

The URL does not appear anywhere when I open the email from the USPS. Furthermore, I looked in the header and went to my gmail account online and looked carefully at every aspect of this one email I could scour and I can't find this seeming random URL anywhere else, only in the line below the title within Classic MS Outlook.

Has anyone else ever seen this behavior? Some sort of corruption perhaps? Maybe a flow-through from Spam problems with the USPS servers?

I'm ready to ignore it and move on unless this turns out to be a known malware issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Outlook Error USPS Informed Delivery and Pixel Watch URL.jpg
 
I have it too -
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it's an image placeholder for a web bug - message list preview displays content in plain text - if the sender doesn't include a plain text version, you'll see what ever the first line is. The domain is non-existant, so it is just acting as a placeholder for the tracking url.

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Copy the message to the junk email folder and you'll see the unrendered text.
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Thank you. It seems that since I have added this USPS address to my "Safe Senders" list in "Junk Email Options" I was not able to Copy or Move it to my "Junk E-Mail" folder. Not sure why Outlook prevented me from doing that, but... I was able to open the email and right-click in the white space at the bottom and click "View Source" in the context menu. Viola! I found the stray web bug text.
 
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