email scam ???

[busdennis]

Hi All
I'm assuming this is a scam, its a new one to me.
I received the following email with an attachment that I have not opened, can anybody confirm

Message cleaned: E-Service (Europe) Ltd Invoice No: 10013405

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Original message


Dear Customer,

Please find your invoice attached from E-Service (Europe) Ltd. We kindly ask you to make payment for all transactions on or before their due date.

Please contact E-Service (Europe) if you have any issues or queries preventing your prompt payment on:

Tel (44) 01707 280000
Email: accounts@e-service.co.uk<mailto:accounts@e-service.co.uk>

Or logon and register to access your customer portal where you can view all historic orders & transactions on www.e-service.co.uk< http://www.e-service.co.uk>

PLEASE NOTE NEW E-SERVICE (EUROPE) BANK DETAILS:

Currency A/C No. Sort Code Swift Code IBAN No.

GBP 21698613 40-04-37 MIDLGB22 GB48MIDL40043721698613
EUR 71685997 40-05-15 MIDLGB22 GB75MIDL40051571685997

Kind regards

E-Service (Europe) Accounts Team

 

[mjr]

Yep, scam, malware in attachments. Spam filters catching loads of similar ones lately.

 

[Drago]

Delete, then delete it from your deleted folder.

 

[ELL]

Yep I'd say 100% scam. Unless you have ordered something from E-services

 

[fossyant]

Delete anything like that and don't open attachments - especially if the email is from friends and appears a bit odd. I know someone who looks to have got themselves infected, and we get an odd email from them every so often with an attachment. Gets deleted.

 

[Markymark]

Have you ordered anything from them?
What do you think?

 

[classic33]

Can't be fake, he's not won anything and they're not offering him money(upon receipt of a release fee). They're simply asking for payment to be made. They've sent him a bill for e-mails, from the Midland Bank, he never knew he'd lost, that they recovered.

 

[fossyant]

Unless you are a business, you won't be emailed an invoice. It's as simple as that.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Delete anything like that and don't open attachments - especially if the email is from friends and appears a bit odd. I know someone who looks to have got themselves infected, and we get an odd email from them every so often with an attachment. Gets deleted.

I sometimes find E-Mails like that in my Spam Folder, occasionally the odd one makes it to the In Box, they all get deleted.

 

[classic33]

Unless you are a business, you won't be emailed an invoice. It's as simple as that.

HSBC using the Midland Bank internal account numbering system! SummatsUp

 

[User33236]

There's a trend at the moment for the attachments to such email being Word documents which no doubt have a nefarious payload.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

There's a trend at the moment for the attachments to such email being Word documents which no doubt have a nefarious payload.

Which is slightly worrying, a word document would work on my Linux box, though I doubt if the pay load would.

 

[User33236]

The Word documents in question are usually very small in size, around 40 to 50kb, and more than likely aimed at Windows users. However if it any doubt don't open attachments of any sort unless you are expecting it AND it's a trusted sender.

 

[mjr]

Unless you are a business, you won't be emailed an invoice. It's as simple as that.

The phone company, alarm company, landscaper and B and Q all email me invoices, to name some that I remember.

It's still a scam, though.

 

[Jaykun85]

co be on the safe side i would say drop your computer into an active volcanos lava flow .