Malicious DHL Email

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Anyone else received an E-mail similar to this?

I've had 5 in the past 4 days.

From: DHL system ([email protected])
Sent: 11 March 2011 15:11:50
To: *******@hotmail.co.uk

Dear customer!
The parcel was send your home address.
And it will arrice within 7 bussness day.

More information and the tracking number
are attached in document below.

Thank you.
2011 DHL International GmbH. All rights reserverd.

Email comes attached with a .zip, which no doubt contains some sort of nasty. Just a heads up.
 
I will never understand scammers. Why is it you would even bother with the effort if you're just going to misspell words...

Because in Nigeria they can't spell and don't care either way because they know most British punters can't either and will click it blindly.
 
We get these all the time at work - and have been for a good few months.
There are ones supposedly from Amazon doing the rounds too.

You really would not believe how many people will open the attachment time after time after time (and each time with the Sophos alert popping up saying "DO NOT OPEN THIS ******G ATTACHMENT YOU DAFT BINT").
Another one we get quite a bit is the one that looks like an official MS alert suggesting the user performs the free scan due to a nasty SECURITY ALERT... Start Scan.. OH NOES YOUR COMPUTER IS RIDDLED WITH NASTY! Send us lots of dollar and our leet software will fix it. Bleh.
 
Another one we get quite a bit is the one that looks like an official MS alert suggesting the user performs the free scan due to a nasty SECURITY ALERT... Start Scan.. OH NOES YOUR COMPUTER IS RIDDLED WITH NASTY! Send us lots of dollar and our leet software will fix it. Bleh.

I had one of them except my sisters boyfriend was at the computer as he has stayed over and I was at school. He won't admit he did anything but when I came home from school I was greeted with some new unheard of "security" software that said that all of my files were potentially hazardous.

Although I simply don't understand how people would fall for them though, I mean I'm not a huge computer nerd , and yet surely when you have some unknown "security" software you had never seen before saying that everything on your computer contains viruses you would perhaps wonder if it was the "security" software itself that is the problem.

Really when you think about it, it is more about common sense than how well you know computers.
 
What the....
do you work at a Dixons group telling your customers they need to build a new PC because they got a virus?

in corporate/professional IT, "rebuilding" a machine means reimaging the hard-drive from a clean image or a fresh reinstall from scratch, depending on the situation.
 
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