Got home today and had an e-mail apparently from Fedex saying they had a delivery they were unable to make as they needed some additional info and asking me to click a link to their website.

Being suspicious I 'phoned Frdex so see if this was real and it's some form of scam they're aware off so they suggested deleting the e-mail and then running an anti-virus scan.

Just thought I'd pass the warning on.

John.

Same goes for 'WhatsApp', DHL, Royal Mail, Amazon - there are lots out there containing .zip files.

It was also sent to every one at work, on the work email

must be a lot of parcels somewhere !!

The Amazon ones are particularly good rip-offs.

The only give away is that the 'From field' is all in capitals, the rest looks cock-on.

Just had one from hm customs and excise due a rebate with a zip file deleted haven't seen any of the others yet!

I keep getting ones from companies house and vat.

i cant believe any one falls for these scams but dont realy care any more as i have just had an email from a prince wanting to put his millions in my bank for safe keeping so a new attom on order

Had a few fedex ones this morning. Pretty easy to spot as spam when there's not even a company logo on them and the hyper links are directed to spamRus.com.

Paypal, hsbc, dhl are also quite common as already mentioned.

Ian

Had one last week from Royal Mail about a package with HMRC import taxes to pay. No sign of anything dodgy in the link addresses.

Checked with my brother who does send stuff this time of year (only reason I opened the mail) and it wasn't him so was about to delet, at which point McAfee kicked in that it had quarantined a Trojan. Hadn't clicked any links.

Ah thats good to know - I had the Fedex ones yesterday, which coincided with a missing delivery from one of my suppliers who were using Fedex! I was suspicious of the email though so didnt bother and instead contacted the supplier.

they must fall for them or they wouldnt send them.
happens alot unfortunately.

Anything I receive that includes a zipped file attachment goes straight in the bin unless it's from someone I know and I would only open it once I have spoken to them and established it was them that had sent it.