New scam warning

[Silver_Shiney]

A warning received from our bank this morning...

Fraudsters are sending out emails purporting to be from a legitimate company called UK Parking Control LTD (UKPC) that claim you have a parking ticket.
The convincing looking emails have titles such as 'Parking Charge Reminder' and claim you have parked on private land belonging to one of UKPC's clients.
The emails contain randomly generated reference numbers and quote a charge of 90 pounds
The bottom of the email asks victims to click on 'payment options and photos' for more information.
Clicking on this link will result in the download of a file which contains malware. The malware is configured to capture confidential banking information such as PINS and passwords, together with payment authorisation codes.
If you receive one of these emails, delete it and do not download any files or attachments.

[CaroleF]

Can I just add another one I received yesterday. It was an email supposedly from Amazon saying that my payment for a product had been declined and I needed to redo my payment instructions. Well as it's over a week since I purchased anything from Amazon I doubted this. I went to Amazon and accessed my account and sure enough everything was in order. I found the email address to forward suspicious emails and I attempted to do this but Virgin wouldn't let me forward it - it said the email contained Spam so I just deleted it as Spam.

Carole

[oldbluefox]

I had one purportedly from PayPal to say my account had been suspended. A quick check of the sender's email address and it was clearly a phishing attempt which I subsequently reported to PayPal who asked me to forward it to them.
You just have to be so careful but unfortunately people do get caught out.

[Silver_Shiney]

Paypal (spoof@paypal.com) and other reporting addresses need the "extended headers" in order to track down the criminal. In Outlook (desktop version), it's easy to do this, by creating a new message to the recipient and then attaching the scam email as an "Outlook item". How you would do that in other email clients, I don't know.

[oldbluefox]

They just told me to forward it to them................

[Silver_Shiney]

They just told me to forward it to them................

Without the extended headers, there's diddly squat they can do with it. A straight forward forwarded email will just say what address the scammer wants you to think it came from.

The most important thing is that people who receive this ess aitch one tee don't reply.

[oldbluefox]

I don't know anything about those. I just did as I was told!! Squeak! Squeak!

Best advice I know of is to make sure you can spot these fakes, take heed of security information and as you say, don't reply or even click on any of their links.