Problem with FedEx ??

[Lucky_Lou]

Got an email from FedEx saying they had tried to deliver a parcel between Christmas and New Year i was curious as i had been away and could not think of any deliveries expected, i clicked the tracking link on the  email to see who it was from and where it was.
 At this point my antivirus blocked the link and in large red letters gave me a danger Will Robinson type warning, i was a bit surprised as it looked a genuine FedEx address just wondered if anyone else has had a similar issue.
Lou

[Barry]

Lou

I can't remember the details at the moment but I'm sure I read that something like this has been reported as a scam.


Edit:

A quick Google search suggests that failed delivery scams of this type have been around for a couple of years. Some info on the Fedex site here.

http://www.fedex.com/us/security/prevent-fraud/email.html

[donbmw]

I have been getting those from DHL, FEDEX. UPS and the US postal service for years. None of them have my email and they allways leave something at the door or in the mail box anyway when they don't leave the item.

[Bengt_Phorqs]

It's a documented fact that the second person to ever send an email was from Nigeria.  http://www.theonion.com/topics/internet/
  8-)

[k_enn]

This is a very common scam.  They use any of the shipping companies, and they do a good job of spoofing the email address and/or website.  Usually the website is used to download a trojan or a tracker onto your computer, or sometimes to make it part of a bot-net.  

Sometimes the phoney nature of the emails can be detected if you know how to get into the header of the email (the internet routing header that shows the paths the the email has taken, and the IP addressess of all computers including the orginating computer  --  not just the "reply to" address which is easily spoofed) or if you run a "who is" search on the domain name of the website.  

k_enn

[Lucky_Lou]

Presumably my AV having stopped me opening it has prevented me downloading anything damaging ??
Lou

[Barry]

I would think so. No harm in doing a full system scan though.




Someone told me an interesting tale today.


Phone rings at this persons home.

Caller with foreign accent  says your computer has a virus and I can help.  

Friend sensibly smells a scam and slams the phone down

Caller rings again and says if you slam the phone on me again I really will put a virus in your computer.

Friend slams the phone again and quickly shuts computer down. Then later finds it won't boot up again.


Accessing the computer is one thing (there was no anti virus software installed) but how the hell did they also find the phone number.

[JPSpen]

We have our ways.. Grasshopper.. Beware of the hack...

Folks, You've got to use common sense..
You have GayDar.. Get some NetDar....

If you're not expecting it.. Don't open it..

Working on three computers this week all for the same reason..
They opened that attachment that comes in the Fedex, UPS spoofed email... You can copy their logo's and every bit of data right off their web page and create your own page that looks exactly like them...

Good on you, Lou for having antivirus that was able to detect the problem.. You'd be surprised how many don't..

Of course my living depends on those folks clicking on that attachment so I'm always happy to hear about it when they do..

John

[Lucky_Lou]

If you're not expecting it.. Don't open it..

Good on you, Lou for having antivirus that was able to detect the problem.. You'd be surprised how many don't..  

Well i was not lucky last time a link on a reenactment forum sneaked through.... it cost me a new hard drive £80
Lou

[darrylri]

A friend in Germany ordered something here to be sent to me, and then got the Fedex mail a couple days later.  He actually forwarded it to me because he was expecting something!  I did notice that it was fake before opening the attachment...

[nhmaf]

One really cannot safely live on the internet these days without antivirus software on your PC.

I am just waiting for the hackers to start on the smart phones next.. they haven't really gotten started there - but they will - people have even more of their lives stored onto those things these days.

[Dizerens5]

I recently got two similar emails purporting to come from the US Postal Service. They got instant deleted. How does a post office come to know my email address and above all -- since when does the US Mail deliver in England? !!!

[k_enn]

One really cannot safely live on the internet these days without antivirus software on your PC.

I am just waiting for the hackers to start on the smart phones next.. they haven't really gotten started there - but they will - people have even more of their lives stored onto those things these days.

And there is anti-virus software for smartphones.  Avast offers a free antivirus software for android based phones.  

[Barry]

Avast is a good product both the professional version and the free one. Not to demanding of resources either.