Current Email Virus Alert!

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OK, I know none of us should be falling for this, but we all have relatives, friends, etc that are not tech savvy and as this is currently doing the rounds [i have been getting 3 or 4 a day], an email claiming to be from Royal Mail, that has an attachment containing a virus, figured it was worth posting so you can pass it on to those that might be less aware. My Sophos AV on the Mac has been picking them all up, so its detectable.
 
Yvonne,

Thank you.
 
just got one and it does look like it comes from the royal mail except for the zip file
 
I had one of those the other day. I'm getting loads of fake amazon orders, paypal payments etc.

Most seem to originate via gmail accounts so I've blacklisted gmail in my spamassassin settings. Done wonders at reducing all this crap.
 
Thanks for the warning.

Oddly enough I have just received an email purporting to be from DHL. It says they tried to deliver a parcel at 10:30 today but no one was in and unless I clicked on the link they provided, the parcel would be returned to the sender. I would have been a bit suspicious anyway but even more so as there were three people in the house at 10:30.

I suppose this time of year is going to attract this sort of activity.


Dave
 
Tringa said:
I suppose this time of year is going to attract this sort of activity.
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unfortunately its relentless all year round for this sort of malware/phishing scam.. couriers, banks, paypal etc etc etc.

you should see the stats on our work email filters..

moral of the storey is NEVER click on a link on an email that you are not expecting. and report it to your email provider.
 
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neil_g said:
unfortunately its relentless all year round for this sort of malware/phishing scam.. couriers, banks, paypal etc etc etc.

you should see the stats on our work email filters..

moral of the storey is NEVER click on a link on an email that you are not expecting. and report it to your email provider.
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I think this is the thing, it IS that time of year when we often ARE expecting parcels, so some would click without thinking, hence they use this time of year to have a hit on this kind of thing. I have been getting DHL and UPS ones all year, but this royal mail one is a very recent new addition to the collection.
 
Yv said:
I think this is the thing, it IS that time of year when we often ARE expecting parcels, so some would click without thinking, hence they use this time of year to have a hit on this kind of thing. I have been getting DHL and UPS ones all year, but this royal mail one is a very recent new addition to the collection.
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no i know, the do prey on the less knowledgeable. i mean for example RM wont know your email for starters :D

rule of thumb, if you hover your cursor over the link it will display an obscure URL.
 
i wouldnt necessarily forward this to all of your friends on email, that can be just as disruptive as the original scam.

for example if you send the warning to 20 people, they each send it on to 20 people, they each send it on to 20 people etc etc. it quickly snowballs and drags email servers performance down.

theres a particularly nasty crypto malware doing the rounds at the moment and rather than send an advisory to all users, which would have done exactly as above, we just ensured that all hatches were battened.
 
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neil_g said:
no i know, the do prey on the less knowledgeable. i mean for example RM wont know your email for starters :D

rule of thumb, if you hover your cursor over the link it will display an obscure URL.
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Unless you use their online postage service or have a login on their site... in which case they will know it and can use it.

I had one and first saw it via ios Mail which seems to be incapable of warning users that something is off. You can't hover over suspicious links so easily via a touch interface either. Fortunately I'm monumentally suspicious and it seemed far too helpful of RM to email about a parcel being detained in the first place ;)
 
srichards said:
Unless you use their online postage service or have a login on their site... in which case they will know it and can use it.
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but that wont have the recipient address will it? trying to think what despatch express (DMO) uses..

e: RM dont have a recipient email address field in the new shipment creation in DMO.
 
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wave01 said:
just got one and it does look like it comes from the royal mail except for the zip file
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and the originating email address.

I had one from Apple the other day asking me to follow the link to confirm my details.....as usual it got filled in with all different kinds of "stuff"
 
There is a very similar one to the OP showing up from 'AMAZON.co.uk' talking about an order placed (dated 2nd December in this case) - received 2 sent to the same email address (that is nothing to do with Amazon). Again the virus comes as a .zip file.
 
ancient_mariner said:
There is a very similar one to the OP showing up from 'AMAZON.co.uk' talking about an order placed (dated 2nd December in this case) - received 2 sent to the same email address (that is nothing to do with Amazon). Again the virus comes as a .zip file.
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Been getting those as well. The biggest clue is tat they come into an email account which isn't used with Amazon. I can see how some fall for them though.
 
Been getting the same email too for a few days now up to 4 times a day, their persistent I'll geve them that. The IP No: jumps all over the planet, did a check on three , Russia, Israel and the latest from a tiny village in Ecuador :confused:
The email account their coming into has never been used to purchased anything from Amazon or elsewhere. Just delete the b****r then forget it.
 
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