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Thanks for sharing this Inky1.
I wish I had a tenth of your computer knowledge Rollo. :-S
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email addresses are not private!
It is fairly easy to harvest email addresses for any given domain or mail server whether it is using web mail or smtp.
It is also fairly easy to fake mail headers.
Thus the popularity of phishing as a lucrative crime is only to be expected.
For those without the nous to write their own script there are "toolkits" of varying quality available for purchase from the Silk Road, the Russians etc etc.
An even easier option is just to purchase bulk e-mail addresses from the usual sources in India, Serbia and so on.
Never ever send anything important or sensitive by e-mail a thousand eyes may see it in transit. Don't send and don't accept attachments. There are plenty of other options eg Dropbox and the like. Disable html on email, set it to text only. Don't rely on yr anti virus program they are far from infallible.
There are no windows based encryption systems on the consumer market which have not been broken or compromised.
I am always amazed at the blithe trust with which people use the internet and smart phones no wonder there are so many sad tales.
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B fraudsters you so have to be on your toes. They try and probably get lucky cos they email someone who has an account or are waiting for deliveries.
The amount of scam Bank emails i get is frightening . you wonder too how they get access to email addresses
i only ever use my msn email address for online shopping and that is the address that fraudsters use ,
:-S
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Folks, be warned.
Three days ago I placed an order online with a UK company that I have used previously. This morning I received an email from DHL. I presumed that it referred to my order. But two things caught my attention.
1. The order number stated in the Subject Line was not the same as the one showing on my online invoice.
2. There was an attachment.
Furthermore, my previous orders had not been delivered by DHL.
So I clicked hotmail’s “view message source” instead of opening the email. There was a lot of ‘gobbledygook’. What follows is first few lines plus (from further on) the actual message.
x-store-info:4r51+eLowCe79NzwdU2kR3P+ctWZsO+J
Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; spf=fail (sender IP is 217.58.48.157) [email protected]; dkim=none header.d=business.telecomitalia.it; x-hmca=fail [email protected]
X-SID-PRA: [email protected]
X-AUTH-Result: FAIL
X-SID-Result: FAIL
Dear customer,
We attempted to deliver your item at 10:10 AM on Nov 24th, 2013.
The delivery attempt failed because nobody was present at the shipping =
address, so this notify has been automatically sent.
If the parcel is not scheduled for redelivery or picked up within 72 =
hours, it will be returned to the sender.
Label Number: B4C48C1572
Expected Delivery Date: Oct 24th, 2013
Class: Package Services
Service(s): Delivery Confirmation
Status: eNotification sent
Read the enclosed file for details.
Thank you,
(c) 2013 Copyright DHL Inc 2013. All Rights Reserved.
I used whatismyipaddress,com to confirm that it really was in Italy. In the middle of Italy – in the back of beyond! (Anyone with a sat-nav can check the coordinates below)
IP: 217.58.48.157
Decimal: 3644469405
Hostname: host157-48-static.58-217-b.business.telecomitalia.it
ISP: Telecom Italia
Organization: Telecom Italia
Services: None detected
Type: Broadband
Assignment: Static IP
Blacklist:
Geolocation Information
Country: Italy
Latitude: 42.8333 (42° 49' 59.88? N)
Longitude: 12.8333 (12° 49' 59.88? E
I phoned my company. They stated that my current order has not yet been despatched, and confirmed that they have not changed their delivery company.
So I checked a DHL website, and this is what I found:-
NEW VIRUS ALERT: Urgent message to our customers
A message to our customers about a spam message and new virus:
Please be advised that if you receive an email suggesting that DHL is attempting to deliver a package, requesting that you open the email attachment in order to effect delivery, this email is fraudulent, the attachment is a computer virus, and the package does not exist.
Please do not open the attachment. This virus does not originate from DHL. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Fraud Alert
Please read our urgent security notice on fraudulent use of the DHL name at:
http://www.dhl.com/en/express/resource_center/fraud_alert.html
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