Insurance policy I've never applied for - could this be a scam?

[Czerwonitz]

I've received a series of emails from Combined Insurance By Chubb about an insurance policy that has supposedly been set up in my name but I haven't set up any such account.

Obviously don't want to click on any of the attachments or links and could just ignore it but is there some risk someone could have stolen my ID and this is a symptom? (Can't see any new credit accounts on my file but I know they take a while to show up).

Obviously also could phone the company but don't really want to.

Thanks Mumsnet wise ladies.

Just ignore them.

Scam

Thanks - it's weird because it looks very convincing on the face of the email but I'm just going to bin. I don't pay for any of the insurances we have except travel so it can't be a company name change or anything.

Do you have a partner? Have you asked them?

That insuramce company is real but the email maybe a scam pretending to be that company.

Look at the email.address etc.
Ring them.
I wouldnt just ignore it but i wouldnt just give my info either
Worth looking into
Ring the number on the internet, not the one on the email (check if its the same number)

Yeah definitely not him and he wouldn't use my personal email for it. We'd never even heard of chubb before except for door locks!

I see it's from the American parent company which makes me more inclined to ignore it. I don't have any identity in the US so seems unlikely someone could set it up to make a claim against it

If you select reply, is it a genuine email address - accounting for font changes etc?

if it is - possibly worth sending a completely separate email with ‘nothing to do with me, please review & delete’ type message?

Is your email address your name?

If so it's most likely a typo on the email address somewhere in the process

What would the scam be? It might be a virus but unless they are asking you to pay for something I can't think what a scam would be

Yeah I'd contact the company directly but assume its a scam x

Phone Chubb directly using the details in their website. Insurance policies are frequently sold on when a portfolio is run off or reinsured, so that the provider you took the policy out with is no longer managing the policy, and whilst policyholders are contacted about this, you may have missed communications.