Re: [Hampshire] Nasty email purporting to come from the US

2016-04-22 Thread Brad Macpherson
> On 22 Apr 2016, at 10:47, Brad Macpherson wrote: > > I get a couple of these each day - they started (for me) in November last > year, all claiming to be from UK-based companies. It’s gradually shifted to > US-based companies over time. /sorry about the top-post... -- Please post to: Hamp

Re: [Hampshire] Nasty email purporting to come from the US

2016-04-22 Thread Brad Macpherson
I get a couple of these each day - they started (for me) in November last year, all claiming to be from UK-based companies. It’s gradually shifted to US-based companies over time. Cheers Brad > On 22 Apr 2016, at 09:54, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > > I've seen a few like this. Some may be ma

Re: [Hampshire] Nasty email purporting to come from the US

2016-04-22 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
I've seen a few like this. Some may be malicious, but some look as if they had simply been mis-directed. Obviously not for me: kill it. There seems to have been a general increase in spam e-mail from Murrkin sources, especially those offering to help with exploiting US-government housing and welfa

Re: [Hampshire] Nasty email purporting to come from the US

2016-04-21 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 21/04/16 21:10, Ian Park wrote: > "Purchase Order, 11300 / 0002323808, has been Dispatched. Please detach > and print the attached Purchase Order." > > The attachment was a .tgz file containing a 6.2kB javascript file - a > method of attack which I haven't seen before. Needless to report that

Re: [Hampshire] Nasty email purporting to come from the US

2016-04-21 Thread Gordon Scott
I received one this morning. I did not recognise the sender. I deleted it. If I think these _might_ be genuine, I normally check the routing information within he mail header. Usually there's some mismatch in IPs/hostnames/etc.. On 21/04/16 21:10, Ian Park wrote: Hi all I received a suspic

[Hampshire] Nasty email purporting to come from the US

2016-04-21 Thread Ian Park
Hi all I received a suspicious email today, purporting to come from Covance (a web search showed Covance to be an apparently genuine organisation doing contract clinical research on drug development and animal testing). The text of the email was: "Purchase Order, 11300 / 0002323808, has been