I get a fair amount of spam and malicious email with attachments or links that I never open or go to but some of them are more original than others. Today I got one that said in the subject line "Re:******* money" and it was from a "Mike Scott" whom I do not know.I use a preview pane so I could read his message, here it is:I'm still waiting for the ******* money!
Please send a check for the due invoice or you will hear from our attorney.
I'm reattaching it for your review.
Mike Scott
Tel: +1.786.391.2208
Cel: +1.786.489.9929
www.camarketing.com
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:30 AM, chris@.... wrote:
Mike please give us till thursday and we will pay the due amount.
Well due to Mike's language I was immediately suspect and I never sent
the message he attached at the end. I looked up "camarketing" and it is a
real company and SURPRISE! They bought a photography gear vendor I used
to work with and I used to use that email address with. So maybe their
email contact list got hacked. I didn't open the Word Doc invoice as it
probably has a virus or trojan program. I Googled the phone number only
to find that others have reported that number on a a similar email
demanding money! They all had the same message but some had a different person's name and company website but the same phone number! Scammers are so dumb! Seems to have started going around in the past 24 hours or so. Well, if you get it.... PAY YOUR BILL!NOT! 4951