This is clearly some kind of fraud, does anyone recognise the scam?

[eemie]

Got an e-mail tonight which reads as follows:-

For obvious reasons I have not opened the attachment or clicked on the link at the bottom.

I have no recent Worldpay or Paypal transactions. When I checked File/Properties the e-mail seems to come from 'dave@fanclub'

Any advice?

Message withdrawn

contact World Pay, maybe they can shed some light

Virus, is my initial guess.

Oh, looked it up, found a link: Here . As you'd guess, the links in the email are faked, and you will either get a trojan or provide your bank details (login etc) to some scammers.

I received three of these tonight to three different email addresses.

just delete it - it is just a con - I get loads of these types of emails and they are just annoying having to keep deleting them out of the way.

LOL! I have received this tonight too. My PC security didn't allow access to the attachment. I am assuming it is either a virus in the attachment or they want you to send bank details off somewhere.

On top of it all the e-mail makes very little sense!

We won £750,000 on the lottery last week...all the e mail sender needed was DH's name, address, NI number, bank account, IDENTITY Ignore it.

To me, that sounds like someone has used your card details to buy something. Or perhaps I'm thick and there's some sort of clever scam...would there be any harm in contacting your cc company to see if there have been any unexpected payments made?

Wouldn't open the attachment, though - as you have obviously realised, that wouldn't be sensible.

Oh well, delete and ignore it is then!

[almost admiringly] Oh, that's good. Very nicely done, without too many of the giveaway factors (although "I am from the Support of WorldPay" and "meeting no response" do send up red flags as being odd turns of phrase). Delete or forward to [email protected] (I don't know if that exists, but a lot of companies have a spoof@ address for reporting this kind of thing).

Thanks all, and thanks NQC for the link.

I had a phone call from a similar source claiming that unauthorised transactions had been made on my credit card. they asked me to confirm certain details, email, date of birth, which they had wrong and which I didn't confirm. as soon as I hung up the phone I rang my credit card company and discovered my card had been cloaned to the tune of approx £1200. Apparently these calls/emails can also be referred to as "fishing" where someone calls claiming to be from a security company and claiming to be needing to put your mind at rest, but actually they're trying to obtain further details. I would definitely speak to your credit card company and make sure that no unauthorised transactions have occurred.

If you have the facility, report the email as Spam. I know if it's a Yahoo address you own, there is a "This is Spam" button, which automatically logs the email address and puts it to "Bulk" folder, which should be renamed "the crap that flies the internet" folder!
Tedious but eventually whittles down the crap you get in your inbox.

We too have had one of these tonight but we have had them in the past too, usually just delete them but dh says their my fault as I keep signing up to things like freefivers, questionaire sites etc, or maybe the common factor is that we all use mn