One to be aware of, this, as it’s unusually convincing.

https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/disturbing-important-matter-malspam-delivers-unknown-malware/

(Obviously, standard advice stands, don’t open attachments on unsolicited emails.)

Be careful out there.

I’m not clicking that!

I received an email which was virtually identical to the one in the article, including the misspelling of amount. What caught my eye was the use of a French ISP email suffix – that and some of the slightly odd phrasing in the email consistent with the author being a non-native English speaker, made me wonder if the perpetrators were French/French speakers, in which case it might be likely that they had gained my email address etc. by hacking a non-UK webshop (i.e. European, possibly French).

It would be interesting to know if other recipients of these emails have made purchases from any non-UK webshops.

Had the email earlier containing an address I’ve not been at for 2 years. Can’t remember ever buying anything from a foreign site, apart from an eBay purchase from China.

We got this email sent to us this morning.
Addressed to my business partner who is a suckers list(his own fault fell for a boiler room scam)
came in on our enquirers email

I am disturbing you…..

Oh well then in that case I’m definitely going to open the attachment.

Exactly, I’d have dismissed that as a scam after reading the first few words.

Had that one – straight in the bin.

“I am a lawful citizen”.

Anyone who falls for that must be a mug.

It’s about as convincing as a nine bob note!

If you use Google Mail (Gmail/whatever they call it today) then most of this crap is automatically caught.