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I've received a dodgy looking email in my 'signup to list' email account. Normally I'd just delete, however this one is a little more interesting as it contains my full name and address.
Email body is:
Claim (and then a claim number starting with MV)
My name
My full address and postcode
Followed by
"I look forward to hearing from you" and a name.
Other thing that's a little different is that the name on the email actually matches the email address (which is a club-internet.fr address).
The email has an attachment, which is a zip file containing a password protected Word doc - password is in the email body. I've scanned the file with various virus scanners and nothing has pinged but the document contains macros which I'm not going to enable.
Anyone come across anything similar?
Email body is:
Claim (and then a claim number starting with MV)
My name
My full address and postcode
Followed by
"I look forward to hearing from you" and a name.
Other thing that's a little different is that the name on the email actually matches the email address (which is a club-internet.fr address).
The email has an attachment, which is a zip file containing a password protected Word doc - password is in the email body. I've scanned the file with various virus scanners and nothing has pinged but the document contains macros which I'm not going to enable.
Anyone come across anything similar?
Phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated - as people become more savvy the attempts will continue to do so.
The recent punycode one for example was pretty terrifying, read about it here if such things interest you. I challenge even the most security conscious user not to potentially get caught out by one like this:
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-fire...
The recent punycode one for example was pretty terrifying, read about it here if such things interest you. I challenge even the most security conscious user not to potentially get caught out by one like this:
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-fire...
If there is malicious code embedded in an encrypted file no virus scanner is going to be able to detect it until it's decrypted, and since with a protected word document that is done at the point of opening it may be too late at that point, this is why they have protected a document, and included the password to unlock it in the very same email.
How many times do you think you have been told
If someone sends you an unsolicited email, if there is an attachment, don't open it, if there is a link, don't click it, this sort of thing is why.
How many times do you think you have been told
If someone sends you an unsolicited email, if there is an attachment, don't open it, if there is a link, don't click it, this sort of thing is why.
dudleybloke said:
I had similar today. I think they have got my details off eBay as I made a minor mistake with my details on ebay and its got the same mistake in this email.
Filed under spam now.
I've had several of these too.Filed under spam now.
How did they get the data from eBay? When did they get hacked?
nearly every email provider has been hacked at one point weather they admit or not
talktalk
hotmail
gmail
yahoo
gmx mail
to name but a few
most of that data ended up sold on dark web epecily combos of user names and passwords
and now to script kiddys on open net.
people are lazy and often use same password for every thing
one of the script kiddys favorite pass times at the moment
is using sentry mba and said combos to test then user names and passwords against any usefully sites / accounts automatically then come back later and sell or plunder anything useful or of value
talktalk
hotmail
gmail
yahoo
gmx mail
to name but a few
most of that data ended up sold on dark web epecily combos of user names and passwords
and now to script kiddys on open net.
people are lazy and often use same password for every thing
one of the script kiddys favorite pass times at the moment
is using sentry mba and said combos to test then user names and passwords against any usefully sites / accounts automatically then come back later and sell or plunder anything useful or of value
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