Fake Ikea email

[Tom U]

I was thinking of putting this in the computer section, but thought here might have a broader audience:
I just received a fake email pretending to be from Ikea, with "invoice" attached.
It was very very authentic looking, but I knew it was fake because I have never ordered from Ikea, so deleted it.
I then checked on google, and sure enough, the attachment is a trojan.
Take care out there!

[edwin_m]

Had an invoice from Lancashire police the other day, presumably the same sort of thing. 

You should have known the Ikea invoice was a fake when there was only one link! 

[port perran]

I was thinking of putting this in the computer section, but thought here might have a broader audience:
I just received a fake email pretending to be from Ikea, with "invoice" attached.
It was very very authentic looking, but I knew it was fake because I have never ordered from Ikea, so deleted it.
I then checked on google, and sure enough, the attachment is a trojan.
Take care out there!

I too received it and didn't open it so it must be quite common.
I'm actually getting more and more of these nuisance emails by the day - gets very annoying.

[railsquid]

Pfft, invoices. I got an arrest warrant the other day

[dannyboy]

I too have had the fake Ikea invoice. Out of interest, mine came via my 'Yahoo' account. I primar, primel, premaril, mainly use 'Gmail' and get very few spam emails that way, but with 'Yahoo', I probably average 4 a day - anybody else have this problem with 'Yahoo'  David.

[Bealman]

I too have had the fake Ikea invoice. Out of interest, mine came via my 'Yahoo' account. I primar, primel, premaril, mainly use 'Gmail' and get very few spam emails that way, but with 'Yahoo', I probably average 4 a day - anybody else have this problem with 'Yahoo'  David.

So far no fake invoices, but I am bombarded daily with emails informing me that so and so has tweeted. I just delete immediately but it's very annoying.

[dannyboy]

So far no fake invoices, but I am bombarded daily with emails informing me that so and so has tweeted. I just delete immediately but it's very annoying.

Hang on a minute - I am just preparing your invoice for you. 

[railsquid]

So far no fake invoices, but I am bombarded daily with emails informing me that so and so has tweeted. I just delete immediately but it's very annoying.

Hang on a minute - I am just preparing your invoice for you. 

"Invoice for provision of tweet notification emails @AUS$ 0.50 per item"

[Bealman]

Thanks for the thought guys, but no need.... I just this second received a real one!!

[railsquid]

Pfft, invoices. I got an arrest warrant the other day

And another one, but someone in Benin has kindly offered to assist for a small fee (excess verbiage redacted):

Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
warrant no; usa/batch43104/32s11/washington DC
FBI. inset. Washington

SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI. WASHINGTON DC FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET FBI OFFICIAL NOTICE!!!


This is the final warning you are going to receive from us. I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to you? We have warned you several times and you have ignored our e-mail. If you fail to respond back to us with the payment details below, then we would be forced to contact other security agencies and have your name blacklisted. We would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working to suspend you until we are through with our investigations

...


I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 30/10/2015 (2) days from now so that you could get this process done because i learnt that you were sent several e-mail without getting a response from you, Bear it in mind that this is the only way that i can be able to help you at this moment or you would have to face the law and its consequences once it has befall on you. You would make the payment through western union money transfer with the below details.

Here is the western union or Money Gram information for the transfer.

RECEIVER'S NAME:========== BENJAMIN, IFEANYI ,MGBAKOR,
COUNTRY:============Benin Republic
City:==================Cotonou
Question:================When
Answer:==========Now
AMOUNT:==============$85.00
MTCN====?.
SENDER NAME=========? :??

Send the payment details to me with the senders name and address, mtcn number, text question and answer used and the amount sent. Make sure that you didn't hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today so that they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer of your compensation funds to be complete which was suppose to have been transferred to you all this while.

...

[Trainfish]

Had an invoice from Lancashire police the other day, presumably the same sort of thing. 

You should have known the Ikea invoice was a fake when there was only one link!

Times must be hard if Lancs police are selling off the furniture. It will also mean they'll have to go back out on the beat!

[railsquid]

Aha, I guess the warrant was related to this dodgy-sounding notification of lottery winnings from the same agency.

Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
www.fbi.gov

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY:

This e-mail has been issued to you in order to officially inform you that we Have completed an investigation on an International Payment in which  was Issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With the help of our Newly developed technology (International Monitoring Network System) we Discovered that your e-mail address was automatically selected by an  Online Balloting System, this has legally won you the sum of $2.8million USD  from a Lottery Company outside the United States of America during our Investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the money from an  Online Balloting System and we have authorized this winning to be paid to you
via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT.

Phew, I may not have the millions but I've escaped arrest.

[JasonBz]

I never seem to get any spam like this at all - i must not be worthy or summat

[javlinfaw7]

I have had emails from the U S Postal service looking for details re parcels sent from us including bank details for tax purposes , straight to bin

[railsquid]

People need to get smart and totally distrust any invoice in an email. Better still. get a decent email provider that cuts out the spam emails with a decent filter.

Don't rely on Yahoo Gmail Hotmail etc. Get your own web address and email server with a decent filter.

Running your own mail server used to be fun... now it's about as amusing as stabbing yourself with a rusty fishplate.

Gmail has by far and away the best spam filter, the odd mail does get incorrectly classified but it's free. As long as you don't mind Google reading your private email etcetera etcetera, but mind you if you're sending confidential information by email which is not written in an obscure Amazonian jungle language only three people speak, then double-encrypted using the latest quantum technologies, you can pretty much assume various three-letter agencies will be printing it out and sticking it on the notice board in their break room for fun anyway.