Spam email from NICE - you may have cancer

[Spinney]

Nasty spam going round, apparently - says it is from NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - who do NOT do analyses of samples), and warns that your recent blood test shows you may have cancer.

Don't open it, just ignore it. Very nasty bit of winding up that will worry some.

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-03-13/scam-emails-tell-patients-they-may-have-cancer/

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk/warning-over-cancer-email-scam-1.267357

Edit: a bit more detail on what opening it and clicking on things could do to your computer.
http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/important-complete-blood-count-result-fake-pdf-malware/

 

[welsh dragon]

Thanks

 

[compo]

A couple of days ago I had a chest X-Ray because of problems I have been having since October. I have also had some blood tests. Obviously cancer is probably what they (and I) are hoping and expecting to eliminate although this hasn't been said by the doctors. However if I didn't know that NICE don't notify people of serious illnesses, or that such news would never be sent via email I may have just wondered. I can see where Spinney is coming from that such a wind up could cause distress to some people if it catches them at a vulnerable time.

 

[HLaB]

OT, you are reading one of my old local papers @Spinney , the courier

 

[Spinney]

OT, you are reading one of my old local papers @Spinney , the courier

Someone flagged it up on facebook, so I just googled to check it out and included a couple of links.

 

[classic33]

OT, you are reading one of my old local papers @Spinney , the courier

From the same people that brought you the Beano & Dandy no less!