Latest Scam doing the rounds....
Markjuk
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Looked in my mailbox today and found this:
Had not ordered anything, nor was expecting a parcel or package or any description. The tracking number quoted did not show up on the tracking system on the DHL website. Also the email was dated 24th October when the delivery was "supposed" to of taken place on 11th October. What I did notice however was the addition of a .zip file attachment with the e-mail which i did not open for obvious reasons.
Dear customer,
We attempted to deliver your item at 10:10 AM on Oct 11th, 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: 9F6A78CE93
Expected Delivery Date: Oct 11th, 2013
Class: Package Services
Service(s): Delivery Confirmation
Status: eNotification sent
Thank you,
(c) 2013 Copyright DHL INC 2013. All Rights Reserved.
*** This is an automatically generated email, please do not reply ***
Had not ordered anything, nor was expecting a parcel or package or any description. The tracking number quoted did not show up on the tracking system on the DHL website. Also the email was dated 24th October when the delivery was "supposed" to of taken place on 11th October. What I did notice however was the addition of a .zip file attachment with the e-mail which i did not open for obvious reasons.
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One has, as you say, an attachment that they want you to run to try and install malware, likely to try and install something like a keylogger to get passwords etc, or to take over your PC.
The other is that a legitimate company delivers a parcel, or attempts to. When you do take delivery you then get a phone call supposedly from the courier company saying it's been delivered in error and someone will come and collect it. Later someone turns up and collects the parcel, you are none the wiser thinking it';s a genuine mistake. In fact the parcel usually contains a phone, laptop or some other such goods normally bought in your name and address. The "courier" who calls you to advise of the wrong delivery is the scammer, who comes round and collects the goods leaving you with the bill or the hassle of trying to sort things out and prove identity theft.
I was going to ask what the point was in sending a scam email that the sender didn't want you to reply to. That was until I saw the bit in bold.
Edit: Just to say that if anyone gets an email from a company that they haven't had dealings with around the time it was sent, it should be obvious that it's a scam.
also get ones about having a flight booked with delta airlines,
I fell victim to this under my company name. Someone hijacked my company domain and registered a fake business address and used my company to order a laptop. Luckily it didn't take me much effort to prove my innocence but I'm baffled as to how these people can get credit accounts from PC world etc without much in the way of proving ID,
I suppose I'll just have to let the Nigerian government have it after all.