| Scam Alert 11:24 - Dec 10 with 2014 views | MattinLondon |
Thought that I share this on here so that more people are aware of it.
Today, I received an email from Evril which looked genuine and had no typos. Had what looked like a tracking number in it and it also had a photo of our front door, showing a package being too big to be put in the front door. Said to click on the tracking number to rearrange delivery.
The only reason why I didn’t click on the links was that I am completely unorganised in terms of Xmas shopping that I wasn’t expecting anything.
I cut-and-pasted the tracking number and put it in the official site - not recognised.
I reported it to evril and to their credit (never thought that I would ever say that) they got back in touch. Apparently some photos of front doors have found their way to some scammers. And the links attached, will open a front door to your device (not sure on the correct terminology).
Thought I share this on here as at this time of year keeping track of stuff is hard. Plus the email looked absolutely genuine. The sending email had evril in it as well. Looked legit. |  | | |  |
| Scam Alert on 11:25 - Dec 10 with 1980 views | Blueschev |
The l at the end should've been a give away. |  | | |
| Scam Alert on 11:30 - Dec 10 with 1935 views | MattinLondon |
| Scam Alert on 11:25 - Dec 10 by Blueschev |
The l at the end should've been a give away. |
Doh. I won’t edit it but for clarity it was evri. | | | |
| Scam Alert on 11:50 - Dec 10 with 1859 views | Kievthegreat |
I'm really used to the scams now with dodgy links to packages I know don't exist. However it's very disturbing if they have got front door pictures because it's a piece of information that lends a huge amount of perceived credibility to the scam. Hopefully spam filters plus spotting a dodgy looking email address would still help spot it, but I can see that being quite successful addition to their scam. |  | | |
| Scam Alert on 12:01 - Dec 10 with 1806 views | DanTheMan |
| Scam Alert on 11:50 - Dec 10 by Kievthegreat |
I'm really used to the scams now with dodgy links to packages I know don't exist. However it's very disturbing if they have got front door pictures because it's a piece of information that lends a huge amount of perceived credibility to the scam. Hopefully spam filters plus spotting a dodgy looking email address would still help spot it, but I can see that being quite successful addition to their scam. |
Very sophisticated and would mean combining a few datasets to combine email + address + photo of address.
Could see that being really successful. |  |
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| Scam Alert on 12:11 - Dec 10 with 1750 views | Guthrum |
| Scam Alert on 12:01 - Dec 10 by DanTheMan |
Very sophisticated and would mean combining a few datasets to combine email + address + photo of address.
Could see that being really successful. |
Possibly involves hacked data from the genuine delivery firms. So many large organisations do not seem to take cybersecurity seriously (because it costs money for something they think will "never happen" and because they don't understand it at senior management level). |  |
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| Scam Alert on 12:28 - Dec 10 with 1626 views | BloomBlue |
What was the email address of the sender?
I'm amazing how many people don't check the sender email address |  | | |
| Scam Alert on 13:12 - Dec 10 with 1473 views | NthQldITFC |
| Scam Alert on 12:28 - Dec 10 by BloomBlue |
What was the email address of the sender?
I'm amazing how many people don't check the sender email address |
Email headers including the sender's address can be spoofed fairly easily.
The Golden Rule, as far as I am concerned, is ALWAYS take the initial action yourself - by which I mean type a known basic address into your browser e.g. evri.com (or save that as a bookmark rather than typing it in if you use it frequently) - then follow the links on that site to where you need to get to and THEN type in any order number etc that the potential scammer has sent you.
Whenever you follow a link that someone has sent you you are risking being misdirected to a spoof scammer site. |  |
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| Scam Alert on 14:04 - Dec 10 with 1345 views | OldFart71 |
A trick for those unaware of it. If you get an email and you are not sure move your cursor over the email and it will give you who it's from. I seem to get no end supposedly orders I have placed of invoices and I am not saying they will all be like mine but many have a g.mail address at the end of them. I had booked a hotel for a holiday I took back in September, I booked it via Booking.com and knew when to expect the balance to come out of my account. Then I received an email asking for a payment, it was a scam. A day or two later I received an email from Booking.com stating to watch out for this scam. |  | | |
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| Scam Alert on 14:07 - Dec 10 with 1333 views | Stenvict |
My mate almost got scammed yesterday by someone claiming to be a Met police officer. He said someone had got hold of my mate's driving license and had been arrested for using his information. The scammer gave a crime reference number and police badge number. It was only when my mate asked him for an email address incase he needed to contact him that he realised it was a scam. The scammed gave his email as ending in @gmail.com. He was very quick to defend himself, saying that police officers do have normal email addresses too.
Be careful out there, folks. | |
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| Scam Alert on 14:08 - Dec 10 with 1326 views | ronnyd |
Take the 'r' out of the original misspelling and you'd be about right. | | | |
| Scam Alert on 22:09 - Dec 10 with 1038 views | Ryorry |
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