Scam ?

[leigh1050]

Received a spam e-mail today supposedly from Lancashire police about an invoice to be paid.
Haven't been to Lancashire in over ten years.
Thoughts.

[Fer]

If it walks like aa duck, and quacks like a duck... It probably need another 30 second in the microwave.

(Scam)

[eldar]

leigh1050 said:

Received a spam e-mail today supposedly from Lancashire police about an invoice to be paid.
Haven't been to Lancashire in over ten years.
Thoughts.

Malware in the.doc Get dozens of them from all sorts of random organisations. Just delete.

[t400ble]

lol - How did they get your email?

[Bigends]

Warned about scam emails from Lancs Police today at work - dont open any attachments

[leigh1050]

Thanks all.
eldar, I have done.
t400ble I haven't a clue.
Bigends Any mail that turns up in the spam folder with attachments, the attachments don't get opened.

[BertBert]

You look in the spam folder?

[Allanv]

leigh1050 said:

Received a spam e-mail today supposedly from Lancashire police about an invoice to be paid.
Haven't been to Lancashire in over ten years.
Thoughts.

I have had 3 today from them all deleted, google the subject line with the word hoax at the end will tell you.

reveals this.

http://sanesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/whitehe...

If you are not expecting it then do not open the attachment, if it might be real ring them before you open the attachment.

[leigh1050]

BertBert said:

You look in the spam folder?

Yep, sometimes get mail in there that shouldn't be.

[Butter Face]

I got the same one today as well. They've cast the net wide!

[BertBert]

leigh1050 said:

Yep, sometimes get mail in there that shouldn't be.

Maybe that's where I have been going wrong!

[MrBarry123]

If PH hadn't been invented, what would your instinct say OP?

Correct, it's a scam. Leave well alone i.e. delete and forget.

[Fer]

FYI - http://www.lancashire.police.uk/news/2015/october/...

[speedking31]

Is it safe to ignore any NIPs that are received from Lancashire Police on this basis?

[silentbrown]

speedking31 said:

Is it safe to ignore any NIPs that are received from Lancashire Police on this basis?

If they're emailed to you, yes

[Jagmanv12]

I received it as well. As I haven't been to Lancs for years and don't do business with them I knew it was a scam/hoax.

Presumably some people get caught by emails like this but quite simply if you've had no dealings with the supposed sender it must be a scam.

[TwistingMyMelon]

Hahah I saw our spamfilter filtered out a Lancs Police email in the logs to an old email ad

I panicked for a second, googled it and saw spam!