Should I open the attachment in this email?

[227bhp]

If you're anything like me you'll spot spam and fraud emails a mile off - it isn't difficult, but every so often one comes through into the junk file which makes you think 'Hmmm, is it or not?'
How to tell? It's from [e-mail] and says:

[i]"UKMail Info!
Your parcel has not been delivered to your address November 23, 2015, because nobody was at home.
Please view the information about your parcel, print it and go to the post office to receive your package.

Warranties
UKMail expressly disclaims all conditions, guarantees and warranties, express or implied, in respect of the Service.
Where the law prevents such exclusion and implies conditions and warranties into this contract,
where legally permissible the liability of UKMail for breach of such condition,
guarantee or warranty is limited at the option of UKMail to either supplying the Service again or paying the cost of having the service supplied again.
If you don't receive a package within 30 working days UKMail will charge you for it's keeping.
You can find any information about the procedure and conditions of parcel keeping in the nearest post office.

Best regards,
UKMail"[/i]


So much stuff comes and goes here through parcel companies I'm not sure what it could be if genuine.
It comes with a Word document attached which I daren't open.
I think it's probably spam but.....

[boyse7en]

Get loads of therse.


Don't touch it.
If it was genuine it would have parcel ref numbers, your name or address, senders name or address....

[Composite Guru]

A quick google search comes up with the following.

http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/11/malware-spam-ukmai...

[Goaty Bill 2]

boyse7en said:

Get loads of therse.


Don't touch it.
If it was genuine it would have parcel ref numbers, your name or address, senders name or address....

Absolutely agree.
Unless you feel your life is lacking in excitement and challenge, and you are looking for new thrills.

I have a friend that regularly throws these kind of things into a quarantined system.
Nothing good ever comes of it.


Anyway, don't they normally put a card through the door?

[Mr E]

[227bhp]

Normally when you block them they display a different address, this one didn't.
I knew I was in the right place here though, thanks!

[jpringle819]

They do actually email to notify of a delivery, no word attachment though

[soad]

Open it, what's the worst that could happen?

[jingars]

You can submit any suspect email attachments for an on-line scan against multiple AV providers at https://virusscan.jotti.org/

[Hudson]

If that's a work computer and you open it, your IT department will probably roll you up in a carpet and throw you off a bridge

[Burwood]

Hudson said:

If that's a work computer and you open it, your IT department will probably roll you up in a carpet and throw you off a bridge

Any basic system should screen all emails for virus/trojans etc.

[Burwood]

Hudson said:

If that's a work computer and you open it, your IT department will probably roll you up in a carpet and throw you off a bridge

Any basic system should screen all emails for virus/trojans etc.

[boyse7en]

Burwood said:

Any basic system should screen all emails for virus/trojans etc.

And that works really well, and explains why there no computers with viruses on...

[Blanchimont]

some email caught in spam can be genuine, as can non genuine emails get through. You've still got to keep an eye out, regardless.