Safecloudz.com invoice - potential scam?
Safecloudz.com invoice - potential scam?
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donz29

Original Poster:

386 posts

236 months

Monday 12th January 2015
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I've received an invoice this morning from Safeclodz.com for supposed back up services. As far as I'm aware we've never used the company and I can find very little about them online.

My initial though is that it is a scam. There's no contact number on their website or the invoice and their website looks more like a holding page.

I wondered if anyone else had received an invoice from them or has had dealings with them?

The company is based in Estonia.

marshalla

15,902 posts

232 months

Monday 12th January 2015
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Domain Name: safecloudz.com
Registry Domain ID: 1893007870_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.ascio.com
Registrar URL: http://www.ascio.com
Updated Date: 2014-12-29T11:51:32Z
Creation Date: 2014-12-29T11:51:01Z

Registered through Denmark, admin contact claims to be in Seychelles and hosting is based in Denmark.

As they say - if you have to ask...


SlidingSideways

1,345 posts

263 months

Monday 12th January 2015
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There seem to be quite a few of these doing the rounds at the moment, I've had four in the past week from various companies wanting me to pay an invoice.
It's malware, the word document attached has a macro that will download and run spyware, key loggers etc...
If you've opened the document, get the machine scanned ASAP.

donz29

Original Poster:

386 posts

236 months

Monday 12th January 2015
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It was a paper invoice received in the post.

We have several of the e-mail variety that are duly deleted upon receipt (not from Safecloudz).

donz29

Original Poster:

386 posts

236 months

Monday 12th January 2015
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Thanks Marshalla for looking that up.

So the company was set up several months after the employee who they addressed the invoice to left.

Filed in the appropriate bin.

donkeyslayer

1 posts

142 months

Tuesday 13th January 2015
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I received a Safecloudz invoice today at the office (final reminder apparently) with my name on it but never heard of them. It must be a scam.

B.

matjk

1,112 posts

171 months

Tuesday 13th January 2015
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According to the internet they target employees that have already left the company, just hoping that a small minority pay the invoice as no one can check the details.
Yet another scam to watch out for