Yet another infected fake email appearing, this time allegedly from Fedex but in fact sent via dreamspaceny.com and telecomitalia.it in this case.
The subject was Bruce Neal agent Fedex sent from FeDex (!) and the contents where:
Dear Customer,
We attempted to deliver your package on February 23th, 2016,
10:00 AM. The delivery attempt failed because the...
There are currently fake, and infected, eMails going the rounds allegedly containing a Word doc with the title of cmsharpscam {at} gmail with the subject title of tracking documents (219alteregos: message 3 of 4) which you should under no circumstances open, click on or touch with a ten foot bargepole!
Simply delete the entire email immediately.
Of course, the best option is to never allow it on your computer in the first place, and if others use your computer, at home or at work, then...
Okay, so it's not an infected email but it's nearly as bad!
There seems to be an ever growing number of nusiance telephone calls coming in day after day at the moment, all from such scams as the "Department of bullsh1t, sorry, Compensation".
Some fake firm trying to con us into giving them our bank details or in general wasting out time whilst trying to sell us some sort of compensation scheme, all ringing without having any permission to mis-use your private phone number.
So far the numbers...
Yet again, there are fake apparent paypal "Please Verify Your Account" emails floating around the ether.
These appear to be sent from PayPal and look genuine, but of course they are not. They are in fact sent from paypai.com but the scammers use a capital "i" in place of "l" in paypal which in most fonts look the same.
As with all scam emails, never click on a link within the email, if you wish to check that your genuine PayPal account is still active, type in the PayPal dot com address in...
There are currently fake eMails going the rounds allegedly from winning.com with the subject title of Re: Apply for your Claims which you should under no circumstances click on any link or respond to or touch with a ten foot bargepole!
The visible contents of the email are
Attn: Beneficiary Email Winner,
We proudly bring to your notice, the results of our...
There are currently fake, and infected, eMails going the rounds alledgedly from someone called Hans Pollard with the subject title of Refund for the Order - Hans Pollard, from a bigpond.com email which has an attached and infected ZIP file which you should under no circumstances open, click on or touch with a ten foot bargepole!
The visible contents of the email are
We are sorry to tell you, but the item you have purchased is not available at the moment. In the document enclosed you can find...
Read more: Refund for the Order - Hans Pollard eMail Warning!
There are currently fake, and infected, eMails going the rounds allegedly from UK Mail with the subject title of UKMail <random number> tracking information, which are in fact sent from spectranet.in which is an Indian domain and attached to the email is an infected Excel file (filetype xls) which you should under no circumstances open, click on or touch with a ten foot bargepole!
Simply delete the entire email immediately.
There are currently fake, and infected, eMails going the rounds apparently sent from [email protected] with the subject title of a number, possibly 201552 and ebill. I've had two to different email accounts so far this morning and both have the identical contents and numbers, the only differences between the two is the email address it was sent to.
Attached to the email is an infected Word file (filetype doc) which you should under no circumstances open, click on or touch with...
There are currently fake, and infected, eMails going the rounds alledgedly from Drayton Manor Hotel with the subject title of Reservation Confirmation and a number, which are in fact sent from ttnet.com.tr which is a Turkish domain and attached to the email is an infected Excel file (filetype xls) which you should under no circumstances open, click on or touch with a ten foot bargepole!
Simply delete the entire email immediately.
Be aware that there is a fake email floating around with a subject of "Apple Deletion" alledgedly from Apple iCloud but in fact being send out by "yourimessage.com" asking you to confirm your Apple ID. The link presented in the email does not link to Apple, but to imessagesecurityhost.org/secureapple/?email= followed by the email address that is supposedly your Apple ID.
This is probably an attempt to get you to enter your Apple ID and Password at the least and possibly could take you to...