Dodgy Link in Spam Email

[anonymous-user]

My dad received an email purporting to be from a delivery company that turned out to be dodgy.

The link in the email was this - http://vps-7a5a7498.vps.ovh.net/

I think he may have clicked it and then stopped his browser before it did anything obvious but I'd be interested to know from any clever bods on here if the link has done anything malicious?

Thanks!

[TX1]

Got one this week also, stating they tried to deliver and I was not in ( I was at the time so suspected something wrong) and click on this link to rearrange delivery and they would charge so much to redeliver.
Can see people falling for it as I suspect lots of people are ordering online lose count as to what they are waiting for and might easily click the link.

[No_Idea]

Got this too.

Actually twice now in 2 days.

[acd80]

garyhun said:

My dad received an email purporting to be from a delivery company that turned out to be dodgy.

The link in the email was this - http://vps-7a5a7498.vps.ovh.net/

I think he may have clicked it and then stopped his browser before it did anything obvious but I'd be interested to know from any clever bods on here if the link has done anything malicious?

Thanks!

If he has clicked on it (and it's easily done), it doesn't matter how fast you are with stopping a broswer, it will beat a human every time.

With that said, this is the line of work that I do. A quick scan in virustotal (www.virustotal.com) shows that there is nothing dodgy behind that link at this time - that's not to say it won't host anything bad in the future.

I'd recommend that you update your dad's antivirus and make sure that his computer is running the latest version of whatever operating system he is using.

I hope that puts your mind at ease.

[anonymous-user]

acd80 said:

If he has clicked on it (and it's easily done), it doesn't matter how fast you are with stopping a broswer, it will beat a human every time.

With that said, this is the line of work that I do. A quick scan in virustotal (www.virustotal.com) shows that there is nothing dodgy behind that link at this time - that's not to say it won't host anything bad in the future.

I'd recommend that you update your dad's antivirus and make sure that his computer is running the latest version of whatever operating system he is using.

I hope that puts your mind at ease.

Thanks for the reassurance! He actually did it on an iPad if that makes any difference.

[tangerine_sedge]

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[anonymous-user]

tangerine_sedge said:

Report suspicious emails by forwarding them onto [e-mail]

link to NCSC website here

Thanks!

[Murph7355]

And stress to parents and kids not to click on anything unexpected/unknown

Biggest line of defence against issues. Neighbours of mine got hit by Global Imposter which has effectively hosed years' worth of photographs etc (and, of course, not all backed up). One slip up and a big loss.

[anonymous-user]

Murph7355 said:

And stress to parents and kids not to click on anything unexpected/unknown

Biggest line of defence against issues. Neighbours of mine got hit by Global Imposter which has effectively hosed years' worth of photographs etc (and, of course, not all backed up). One slip up and a big loss.

In this case it was really unlucky timing.

They’d had a real delivery confirmation of a delivery that was coming as two shipments. A few days after the first shipment they received the dodgy email saying they had tried to deliver but couldn’t due to incomplete address details. The real email from the real courier arrived in their inbox about an hour later and that’s when they realised it was dodgy.