Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Hello,

I've just received this email 3 times in a short while:

Good evening
Dear Credit Card Holder:

The last transaction report on your credit card shows a number of transactions that have questionable background. That gives us reasons to believe that your credit card details have been stolen, and your card has been abused for making unauthorized payments.

Enclosed is the listing of transactions made with your credit card between 13.06.2009 and 15.06.2009. Please look through the enclosed document carefully and pay special attention to the last three of the listed transactions – they are the ones that we suspect to be fraudulent.

Please find time to review the enclosed account statement and confirm the transactions you have authorized in person. This would help us both to have this issue resolved as quickly as possible.

The Word-formatted copy of your transaction list:

scananida.com.pl/report_8977.exe

(I've removed the http:// from the front of the link to avoid anyone clicking on it in error)

There are a couple of obvious clues...

  1. The Salutation: "Dear Credit Card Holder" - any real credit card company would address the email directly to me
  2. The link to a word document is has an .EXE file extension - always a good sign!
  3. I received 3 copies of the same email, two from one person & one from another!
So, if you receive such an email, do what I did & delete them! Don't be tempted (even a little bit!) to click the link