New Email Scam - Royal Mail - WARNING

[Merchant UK]

Today i recieved an email from the royal mail ????

Dear customer.

A courier did not deliver the package to your address.
Reason: Error in delivery address.
Information about your package is attached to the letter.
Read all information carefully and come to the "Royal Mail" office to receive your package.

Thank you for attention.
Royal Mail Service.

There was a zip file attached. If you get similar Please do not open it as it could be a virus.

How did i know???


For one, How did the Royal Mail know my email address? I've never had a card from them? They discribe the postman as a "Courier" and i was to go to the "royal mail office" to "recieve" my package as opposed to the Sortting office to Collect my Package???


Plus the piss poor english "Thank you for Attention"


here is the Header from the email, The stars are to block out my personal details

Return-path: <[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]>
Envelope-to: [EMAIL="sales@********.co.uk"]sales@********.co.uk[/EMAIL]
Delivery-date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:38:16 +0100
Received: from host18-94-static.46-88-b.business.telecomitalia.it ([88.46.94.18]:17411 helo=royalmail.com)
 by host3.ghserve.com with smtp (Exim 4.69)
 (envelope-from <[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]>)
 id 1RDG3X-0002pl-Mp
 for [EMAIL="sales@************.co.uk"]sales@************.co.uk[/EMAIL]; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:38:16 +0100
Message-ID: <000b01cc8751$d8277bce$750ba8c0@UFCONT02>
From: "Royal Mail" <[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]>
To: <[EMAIL="sales@*****.co.uk"]sales@*****.co.uk[/EMAIL]>
Bcc: <[EMAIL="sales@*******.co.uk"]sales@*******.co.uk[/EMAIL]>,
 <[EMAIL="sales@********.co.uk"]sales@********.co.uk[/EMAIL]>,
 <[EMAIL="sales@********.co.uk"]sales@********.co.uk[/EMAIL]>
Subject: Error in the delivery address No705703
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011  15:38:07 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01CC8762.9BADDFB0"

Also the BCC was to a few other companies that emails started with "Sales"

Just be carefull if you recieve a similar request and never one the Zip file thats attached with it

 

[ITsoldUK]

Cracking heads up and with Christmas coming, these will only increase.

Sage advice and in addition some basics for those that are interested wit relations to emails received

1. If you don't know the sender delete
   [*]DO NOT click any link asking for you to update
2. IF YOU DO KNOW THE COMPANY ring them and check they sent it
   [*]NEVER click on any link in the email
   [*]NEVER click on any link in the email
3. NEVER open an attachment unless you know what it is or who sent it
4. SCAN ALL ATTACHMENTS with your AV if you decide to open them
5. TELL YOUR MATES don't circulate your email address with jokes, drop them all into the Bcc field

I repeated the same one three times just in case you missed it.

HTH

Regards
Daren

 

[GravexWebServices]

One thing I always do is ring the company up who they are purporting to be.

For example, I received an e-mail from my bank the other month. It was from a bank I bank with and had my name etc on it. I wasn't sure about it, so I called up the bank and they confirmed it was from them.

It takes 10 mins to check if it's legit if you're really unsure.

But I agree with the previous poster, cracking heads up

 

[quikshop]

One thing I always do is ring the company up who they are purporting to be.

Why? Just delete the email and get on with your life.

 

[Merchant UK]

Why? Just delete the email and get on with your life.

Exactly, No need to lose sleep over this scam, The Royal mail would never send plain emails like that and if your still not sure, just look at the Emails header, as i did, that particular one came from Italy and a google of the IP address showed a well know spamming IP.

So unless the Royal mail have moved to italy, just delete it. As its been stated, with Christmas coming up and more and more folk are ordering on the web, theres bound to be people that will open it.

What would happen??? I guess the worst that could happen is that your PC would be infected by a worm and then next time you log into your Bank account or input your Credit card details, someone will be getting all that info, passwords etc..

Just be VERY careful...

On a lighter note a little tip i normally do is i use a Prepaid Credit card to order online, Normally i transfer funds to it the value i want and use that to order, if the number falls into the wrong hand the card would be worthless with no credit. Better this way than using a card that has £5000 credit on....

 

[KM-Tiger]

.... the IP address showed a well know spamming IP.

Really? It's not listed at Spamhaus.

Which lists is it in?

 

[Merchant UK]

Really? It's not listed at Spamhaus.

Which lists is it in?

The Honeypot project http://projecthoneypot.org/ip_88.46.94.18

Can anyone add it to Spamhaus??? :|

 

[LianneF]

There also seem to be similar ones saying they are from UPS, Fedex etc so just delete them. My sister opened one of these last week, had a virus attached to it and wiped everything off her laptop. She has obviously learnt the hard way and now deletes everything!
Lianne

 

[mit74]

NEW? I've been get several of these emails a day for the last 4 years. All sorts of parcel companies.

 

[GravexWebServices]

Why? Just delete the email and get on with your life.

If it's an e-mail from a bank I deal with then I have every right to check it to make sure it's legit. Sure I understand you should ignore it, and most of them i do. It's one's that come from my banks that I check up.

It takes all of 5 minutes to do it. Whats more, it happens only once every 6 months, so it's not as if I'm constantly on the phone to my bank every day when an e-mail is received.

 

[PeterG]

My aunt got a virus from this email.
When I asked here if she was expecting a package from Royal Mail she answered no...

It's worth remembering that everyone isn't as tech savvy as the rest of us, so it may be worth reminding friends and family to never open email attachments unless they are expected. Even then scan them with a decent virus scanner.

 

[bizsprinter]

Cracking heads up and with Christmas coming, these will only increase.

Sage advice and in addition some basics for those that are interested wit relations to emails received

1. If you don't know the sender delete
   [*]DO NOT click any link asking for you to update
2. IF YOU DO KNOW THE COMPANY ring them and check they sent it
   [*]NEVER click on any link in the email
   [*]NEVER click on any link in the email
3. NEVER open an attachment unless you know what it is or who sent it
4. SCAN ALL ATTACHMENTS with your AV if you decide to open them
5. TELL YOUR MATES don't circulate your email address with jokes, drop them all into the Bcc field

I repeated the same one three times just in case you missed it.

HTH

Regards
Daren

^ good answer! Especially about not opening the email if you don't trust the sender. This may sound like SCI-FI but just opening up an email through hotmail would install a virus (this has now been fixed of course). Btw did anyone try looking up the IP? other people have reported it as well...