I received an email addressed from auto confirm at amazon pretending to be an order confirmation.  I was suspicious, I have no orders with amazon, email addressed to multiple addressees and invoice contained in zip file.  I felt safe opening zip file, but inside zip file was an exe file.  I have deleted downloaded files.  Just wondered if this is new way of attacking PCs and if anyone else had received similar message.

Tony

Just to add there is a warning on Amazon site re fake order confirmations.

This type of spoof email has been going on for years ...

This Is COMMON . You shouldn't open this sort of thing.
I have several business websites (which of course contain email contacts) and I get bombarded with similar emails.
IGNORE!!!!

Unless my emails are from people I know personally or from utilities I deal with they get deleted instantly,
I had a pile of messages offering me gas training courses a few weeks ago which were binned instantly,
together with all the Argos, Marks & Sparks and the "you've won a holiday, laptop, 2 for 1 restaurant
deals " etc.

I too had one this morning, which was nearly opened as I've recently placed several orders including Amazon.  I was very suspicious as it included an attachment, (not normal from Amazon), so I checked my account at Amazon - no current orders so I deleted it.

Its a continuing problem for me as well.

I don't "do" Internet Banking but virtually every day I get emails purporting to come from one financial institution or another.

I am fed up forwarding them to the appropriate scam reporting address and just delete them now.

If they appear to have come from someone I have an account with (PayPal for example) I simply check my account direct with them to see if anything needs attending too. Its a ***** pain!

Ray

Dear good sir, as we in asia do not have any good hacking gentlemen, could you please being to type at the C:\ prompt

FORMAT C:

Thanking you good sir, we renain yours     the Asian Virus team

Quote from: Only Me on September 30, 2013, 09:09:27 PM
Be careful if you receive the Irish Virus too, it pertains to be from the King Of Ireland with a microsoft word document.  On opening the document and following the instructions I managed to delete all my data and format my hard drive. 

I wont be falling for that again as I purchased this great software programme from George Abaabadwango and he now stores all my bank account details for me on his server... Oh wait.... Oh dear....

Had one of these two almost ordered it as i had purchased stuff recently to. but something about it just felt strange. TBH all emails I suspect are scams, even if they are from a mates acocunt as you never know if they have been hacked. Which is another common problem too.

I have now had Microsoft engineers phone me three times in as many weeks informing me they need access to my computer to correct some errors.  The last one was very persistent, spoke with an Indian accent and even when I challenged him that he was a scammer he tried very hard to convince me otherwise and that he really was from Microsoft and trying to correct the errors other scammers had caused.  You have to give hime 10 out of 10 for front.   

SWMBO loves these    She normally spins them along for a while, then says they'll need to speak to Tech Support and passes the call to me.  They normally hang up on me within 30 seconds

The last one (Indian, of course, called Jim ?? !!  ) claimed to be from Facebook Support !!!

I've had a lot of calls from the Microsoft engineers insisting that I have a problem with Windows (I use a Mac  ) I did get a phone number out of one of them and I passed it onto Trading Standards who failed even to acknowledge that I had sent them this information  There was also a programme about this on the local news and they had traced a company to Calcutta which, surprise surprise, had packed up and gone when they got there to investigate but they did interview a guy that used to work in one of these 'call centres'

I now have caller display so any calls that display as International, I leave to ring until the answer phone cuts in - if it is a genuine caller, they will usually start to leave a message and then I will pick up the phone.

I'm now getting loads of fake emails purporting to be from LinkedIn 

I've had a few dozen of them over the last week. I just delete them.
I use several email addresses, different ones for different things and get at least 25 to 30 spam emails a day.
PPI claims and payday loans are what I get the most.
I even get the ones from crooks pretending to be banks.
Oh wait, some of them actually are from banks... 

Quote from: whiteswan on October 01, 2013, 03:10:59 PM
I have now had Microsoft engineers phone me three times in as many weeks informing me they need access to my computer to correct some errors.

Oh God I love those: I run Linux. The last conversation went along the lines of "I'm calling about your laptop", "Which laptop?", "The one running Windows", "None of them run Windows", "Uh...*click*"