Another Scam on another website

[righty]

Just received this & contacted firm in Manchester & they know nowt about it as do I The real firm is Power Safety Supplies the same email address used on what I expect is a scam email

Boycie have the scammers moved on to this fraud. You'll also note, there's an invoice to download which, if you do will no doubt corrupt your computer

"Thank you for using our services!
Your order #68474839976 will be shipped on 31.08.2014.

Date: August 27, 2014. 11:58am
Price: £174.94
Payment method: Wire transfer
Transaction number: C9FBB22E241CA76D

Please find the detailed information on your purchase in the attached file
(order_2014-08-27_11-09-05_68474839976.zip)

Best regards,
Sales Department
Yuki Benes
+07850-42-87-82"

[Nibbler]

Re: Another Scam on another website

Had a couple of similar ones where legitimate business contact details have been used to try to get you to open an attachment that no doubt is a trojan/virus etc.

[righty]

Re: Another Scam on another website

Tomorrow I'm expecting a telephone call from the genuine firm's boss. Q how would/could he determine when his email address has been used? Any useful advice I can offer? Apart that is from advising him to LB which I will do

[Nibbler]

Re: Another Scam on another website

Really depends on where the email came from.

If it originated from their company or actual email account it could indicate it has been hacked or they have some malware/trojan/nasty on their systems.

What if often more likely is that it's not come from them at all, but has simply had the "from" email address etc spoofed. Very very easy for spammers/scammers to do. The few I've seen like this, that was what had happened, and looking at the email headers you could see that the email had never gone near or come from the company it claimed to be from.

Are you on their email lists or a customer?

If it is really from their systems or email, then they obviously need to sort that, and maybe warn people on their customer/email lists.

If it's just some random spammer spoofing their company as a sender, then not really a lot you can do, though if they get more than a few reports from people they again might like to warn anyone on their email lists, just in case they by chance get a random hit from one.