Re: [LUG] Another scam email

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I want to send a file to anyone and I'm not sure what checking their mail server does I upload the file to my webspace and send them a link.  I sent one the other day actually and got caught out. That actually /was/ a zip file - user manual of a NAS I sold to a friend sent to his home email so not expecting any corporate fannying about - and it never got delivered.  I just got an error message back, so I uploaded the file and sent the link.  Job done.

Julian

On 02/12/13 11:22, Adrian Midgley wrote:

I suppose really an attachment that is a zip file should trigger alarm.

The NHS however blocks many sorts of attachments, and advisses people to turn them into, or relabel them as, zip files in order to pass through the vigorous rigorous state-of-the-art[1] malware checking it maintains for all our comfort and protection.

So warning that a zip file you don't expect is potentially an attack might interfere with the operation of the nation's infrastructure.

Ah well.

[1] possibly macrame.

On 2 December 2013 08:57, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Recently I wrote about an email I received recently, supposedly from DHL. Apparently a well known scam.

Today I had one about an order from Amazon, or so it said. It was the wrong email address and I don't have any orders from Amazon at the moment. Again the attachment was a zip file.

Another one to add to the list to watch out for.

regards

Neil.

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