Posts Tagged ‘spoof email’
Today I received an email from my ISP saying it had quarantined an email from someone at UPS. I found this strange as I was not expecting anything from UPS and that my ISP thought it was a virus.
As I always check these things out I phoned UPS and even before I got to multiple choice menu it had a message saying they have had a number of calls about this email. The email says that a delivery was attempted but no one answered and asks the user to open an attachment to arrange another delivery. Well you might have guessed it is a virus and opening this attachment infects your computer.
If you get any unexpected emails from a large company especially Ebay and Paypal go to their websites directly and not though a link on the email and check it out either by logging in or in my case phoning the company. I know Ebay and Paypal have an email address you can forward your email and they will tell you if it came from them or not.
