The new year has arrived, and the incredible email scams are coming thick and fast.
Here’s another one to be wary of.
Again, it takes the form of an invoice. As usual, it assumes that you owe the money and that you will pay it, just like any legitimate invoice that you might receive.
It takes a strong tone because “this is the second billing notice” . . . which . . . “is now overdue”.
It is sent to “Undisclosed Recipients”, which immediately tells you that it is a circularised email, and not an email sent to you individually.
If it were a legitimate invoice, surely it would be sent only to you personally.
The scary part is that this email has an attachment.
RULE #1 for dealing with SPAM
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER and NEVER open attachments on suspicious emails.
At the risk of repeating myself . . . never open attachments.
That is the quickest way to get a virus on your computer . . . a bug that will either crash your hard drive or capture your keystrokes, (including passwords), and send them back to the hacker . . . or worse!
By now, I am hoping that most people will have this information.
And hopefully this post has reached one more person who did not know before.
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