Scam warning

[silversnapper1]

I’ve just received a couple of e-mails in my junk file which purport to be from DHL. They read as follows:-


Dear customer!

The parcel was send your home address.

And it will arrice within 7 bussness day.


More information and the tracking number

are attached in document below.


Thank you.

2011 DHL International GmbH. All rights reserverd.

There is also a zip file attached called tracking.zip which I would suspect has some sort of spyware in it that may put your computer at risk and the only tracking that it is likely to do is of your activity. I know that none of you are daft enough to open this file but a little warning never goes amiss.

[dan123]

thanks for the heads up, there is an awful lot going around at the moment including one on facebook!, a private chat message will appear from a friend containting a link saying the like a picture of yours, once clicked the link can download a virus, and the same old BT and British Gas scams asking for account numbers and details are doing the rounds once again,

dan,

[donoreo]

I get the same thing for UPS all the time.

[KeithT]

Got this one myself! I never cease to be amazed by these scammers. They really ought to take lessons in English Grammar. And then they should check their spelling. It's a dead giveaway, isn't it?

[dan123]

it sure it, always amuses me, ive had some goodones recenlty the best was from BT asking to comfirm account details, although the email reply was to go to some guys personal email adress not BT, amateuers, the facebook one almost had me though luckily the antivirus was paying attention,

dan,

[Cathus]

The sad thing is the amount of people who get drawn into these scams & end up sometimes losing their life savings.

Some of them deserve it, the're just stupid & greedy, but many are just sad & vulnerable.

If you facncy taking a look at the lighter side of scamming, check out www.419eater.com

[Reinardina]

I'm not on Facebook, so even if I get a message from, say, Sarah (my daughter's name and she has a Facebook account) I know it's a scam.

I had the parcel ones around Christmas, when Royal Mail wasn't delivering because of the weather and the courier firms were working as normal. That was very clever of the scammers, I thought.

I also had a deluge of so called 'E-cards' at the time, also very seasonal.

'Amazon' is sending me constant emails, but not to the address I use for deals with them.

And at the moment I get emails offering Adobe software.

And of course there are the usual requests for help to get millions out of certain countries. I love the ones purporting to come from barristers that open with: "Hello Dear"!

And the offers to 'increase my manhood,' have been coming in for years now. Often backed by a 'money back guarantee'!

Thank goodness they all immediately disappear into the 'Junk' folder.

In Hotmail, you can read the message without opening it by right-clicking the message and then going to 'source code.' I regularly do this and find it very amusing!