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wicket - 24/7/08 at 08:21 PM

Received e-mail supposedly from 'Customs Service', subject 'Your parcel is at the customs office'.

Good day,

We have received a parcel for you, sent from France on July 9. Please fill out the customs declaration attached to this message and send it to us by mail or fax. The address and the fax number are at the bottom of the declaration form.

Kind regards,
Royal Bruner
Your Customs Service

Looks suspect to me.

austin man - 24/7/08 at 08:24 PM

I have received the same at work, I have been advised not to open the zip file as it is a virus. Or should we all turn up to collect

mackei23b - 24/7/08 at 08:26 PM

I got one to, deleted it straight away.

Cheers

Ian

Fatgadget - 24/7/08 at 08:27 PM

What is the return fax number ?

britishtrident - 24/7/08 at 08:30 PM

Definite Trojan ---- most ISP's would have caught it before it was delivered. The payload attempts to capture account, password and login details .

I have also seen a variant claiming to be from UPS so treat anything similar with caution.

britishtrident - 24/7/08 at 08:35 PM

Some day the guys that send these things are going to cotton on to the fact that they need to start signing them with common ordinary UK names like Sir Fred Bloggs, or Mr Gllie F Towrag or Kevin Phatanh Phantang-Olley Biscuit-Barrel MBE.

David Jenkins - 24/7/08 at 08:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
I have also seen a variant claiming to be from UPS so treat anything similar with caution.


That's reassuring - I received an email from my ISP yesterday telling me that a message with a title like that one had been trapped by their spam/virus trapping system, and that I would have to send an email to the administrator to have it unblocked (the email telling me this wasn't in itself a scam - it came from a genuine and known address!).

Needless to say I didn't send the request.

[Edited on 24/7/08 by David Jenkins]

paulbeyer - 24/7/08 at 08:58 PM

I got 2 emails today both reporting to be UPS saying the parcel I sent on June 1st could not be delivered. Each email had a zip file attached so I binned them. I never sent a parcel by UPS so it was obviously a virus but not picked up by AVG.

caber - 24/7/08 at 09:25 PM

Boy am I glad I use a mac

Caber

Liam - 24/7/08 at 10:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by caber
Boy am I glad I use a mac

Caber


Yeah cos all of us using PCs are now totally and utterly doomed. Oh wait - no we're not

Liam

scootz - 24/7/08 at 10:51 PM

Second the Mac sentiment... no stupid pop-ups and very few viruseseseseseseseses!

DarrenW - 24/7/08 at 10:52 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Some day the guys that send these things are going to cotton on to the fact that they need to start signing them with common ordinary UK names like Sir Fred Bloggs, or Mr Gllie F Towrag or Kevin Phatanh Phantang-Olley Biscuit-Barrel MBE.



That tickled me! Good common english name Kevin.....

speedyxjs - 25/7/08 at 06:37 AM

I had one yesterday saying it was from UPS

trogdor - 25/7/08 at 08:04 AM

yep me too, as soon as I saw the attachment was a zip file i deleted the email. Plus the tracking number was false

andyharding - 25/7/08 at 09:05 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Liam
quote:
Originally posted by caber
Boy am I glad I use a mac

Caber


Yeah cos all of us using PCs are now totally and utterly doomed. Oh wait - no we're not

Liam


Yes you are

martyn_16v - 25/7/08 at 09:14 AM

quote:
Originally posted by caber
Boy am I glad I use a mac

Caber


Being a slave to fashion won't help you at all against receiving spam and phishing attempts.

scootz - 25/7/08 at 12:18 PM

Only downside I've found to using a Mac is that some internet applications won't load properly.

Otherwise, it does everything else I want it to!