0212 telephone number?

[Hugo a Gogo]

just got a slightly suspicious email, talking about an invoice, ostensibly from a company I have made a credit card purchase from, with the sum matching my last purchase from them

it has an attached pdf which I haven't opened, and a contact number for the accounts dept which doesn't match the Glasgow area code of the actual company, it gives an 0212 number - what is this, a dodgy number or what? I can't find anything with a quick google

[GOG440]

Hugo a Gogo said:

just got a slightly suspicious email, talking about an invoice, ostensibly from a company I have made a credit card purchase from, with the sum matching my last purchase from them

it has an attached pdf which I haven't opened, and a contact number for the accounts dept which doesn't match the Glasgow area code of the actual company, it gives an 0212 number - what is this, a dodgy number or what? I can't find anything with a quick google

I would call the company directly and speak to someone, to me it sounds dodgy, if it isnt genuine they need to know so they can warn their customers, I doubt very much you are the only person that the fraudsters have attempted phishing on.

[Hugo a Gogo]

I emailed them back on the real email address, but it seemed to come from a real noreply@ their email address

[TooLateForAName]

Hugo a Gogo said:

I emailed them back on the real email address, but it seemed to come from a real noreply@ their email address

Means nothing - the email from field is just text.

[FlyingMeeces]

If it's definitely a PDF (if it's an attachment to an email, that should be fairly easy to establish?) you should be okay to open it. Just definitely not anything that's not .pdf.

[matchmaker]

Was this the e-mail?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west...

BBC said:

Thousands of football fans were sent a scam email asking them to pay a bill after a Scottish Football Association database was apparently hacked.

An invoice for £170 was sent to subscribers to the Scotland Supporters Club mailing list just after 09:00.

The email - addressed "Dear Customer" - provided a link for payment, which was a disguised website address.

[Hugo a Gogo]

matchmaker said:

Was this the e-mail?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west...

BBC said:

Thousands of football fans were sent a scam email asking them to pay a bill after a Scottish Football Association database was apparently hacked.

An invoice for £170 was sent to subscribers to the Scotland Supporters Club mailing list just after 09:00.

The email - addressed "Dear Customer" - provided a link for payment, which was a disguised website address.

ooh, well spotted

it was indeed, insult added to injury after paying to watch Scotland get humped