Customs Service HA!

listermint

Just received an email from the "Customs Service" heres how it reads...

"Greetings,

We have received a parcel for you, sent from France on July 9. Please fill out the customs declaration attached to this message and send it to us by mail or fax. The address and the fax number are at the bottom of the declaration form.

Kind regards,
Rusty Mckinnon
Your Customs Service"

Email address from - "Customs Service" <tennis.lacoquille@wanadoo.fr
CC - mahame_massawe@yahoo.co.uk

With a lovely attachement "Tax_Invoice.zip (21KB)"

I mean come on, does this not have nigerian origins written all over it :rolleyes:. Seems like they are trying a new angle. Opened up the attachment and it looks like an application so i left it as is :eek:. Didnt want to risk it. Deleted it straight away.

Anyone else got this one yet? Its new to me.

N.O.I.P.

Heard about that one a few days ago, theres supposed to be a virus in the zip file, best run a scan now

listermint

Scanning now

N.O.I.P.

Gotta give them credit for being inventive its going to catch quite a few people, although it would have worked better if it was sent around christmas

Adam

Yeah, this is definitely going to catch out a lot of people. However, if the attachment does indeed contain an executable file, I wouldn't suspect a fresh Nigerian scam technique. They don't benefit from planting viruses...

listermint

It did indeed look like an executable file,but im not willing to open the app. Probably contains a form for your "bank details" and what not in order to obtain your goods from customs:rolleyes:

FunkZ

Fill it out and see what happens

Adam

FunkZ wrote: »

Fill it out and see what happens

Nah, leave the email on your providers server (i.e. in the inbox) and head out to a net café, check it out there.

purplesheep

I got the same email today but it was signed off :

Benjamin Crane
Your Customs Service

seriously who would believe someone from a company called your parcel service-they could have at least come up with a realistic name!

Strangely enough I also got 2 other emails today from UPS (well someone pretending to be UPS) :

Unfortunately we were not able to deliver postal package you sent on July the 1st in time
because the recipients address is not correct.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office

Your UPS

And unfortunately since I was living in the US recently and had ordered quite a few things from the net that were delivered by UPS I clicked on the attachment. Thankfully it said a virus was detected and would not be downloaded. Of course I'm going to do a virus scan now but it was awful stupid of me since I have gotten emails from UPS before and all the information is in the body of the email-never in attachments. I suppose they are preying on people like me who have a lapse of judgment every once and a while!

What kind of people get their kicks from trying to give a virus to random people they have absolutely no grudge against!

grrrrr

listermint

Mirror wrote: »

Nah, leave the email on your providers server (i.e. in the inbox) and head out to a net café, check it out there.

Mess with someone else's hardware i like it!

Might pop round to my mates tonight

Krsnik87

lmao

adamextreme

LMAO wow they are really on this one. So yesterday we got a mail from UPS saying our delivery was lost and to download the .zip file.

My boss opened it and sent it to another person in our office who opened it.

Now i got 2 infected PC's I log in this morning and get the Customs Email in my inbox! LMAO

These guys are making money off ads that popup and say your infected with this and you need to purchase this.

I thinks its called the braviax virus, or in my case i call it buritos cause it installs buritos.exe.

ITS A PAIN IN THE BUTT! ONE OF MY PCS CANT EVEN GET PASSED THE WINDOWS WELCOME LOGIN SCREEN AT THIS POINT.

DO NOT OPEN THIS FILE STATING TO COME FROM "US CUSTOMS"
CHECK THE EMAIL ADDRESS ITS RANDOM - US CUSTOMS VIRUS

US CUSTOMS EMAIL

N.O.I.P.

Hey cool thats 2 posters whos first post has been in this thread

PurpleBerry

purplesheep wrote: »

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What kind of people get their kicks from trying to give a virus to random people they have absolutely no grudge against!

grrrrr

Hehe, really wanna know the answer to this?

listermint

adamextreme wrote: »

LMAO wow they are really on this one. So yesterday we got a mail from UPS saying our delivery was lost and to download the .zip file.

My boss opened it and sent it to another person in our office who opened it.

Now i got 2 infected PC's I log in this morning and get the Customs Email in my inbox! LMAO

These guys are making money off ads that popup and say your infected with this and you need to purchase this.

I thinks its called the braviax virus, or in my case i call it buritos cause it installs buritos.exe.

ITS A PAIN IN THE BUTT! ONE OF MY PCS CANT EVEN GET PASSED THE WINDOWS WELCOME LOGIN SCREEN AT THIS POINT.

DO NOT OPEN THIS FILE STATING TO COME FROM "US CUSTOMS"
CHECK THE EMAIL ADDRESS ITS RANDOM - US CUSTOMS VIRUS

US CUSTOMS EMAIL

There ya go so! Glad i didnt touch it, did a scan soon after. All ok!

Mint Sauce

something very similar my self

Good day,

We have received a parcel for you, sent from France on July 9. Please fill out the customs declaration attached to this message and send it to us by mail or fax. The address and the fax number are at the bottom of the declaration form.

Kind regards,
**** ********
Your Customs Service

didn't open the zip file, as, have not ordered anything lately, not expecting anything, and dont know anyone in france who would be sending me anything

Davexirl

Just checked my email and had the exact same mail. Here is the senders email address, is it not from Australia???

From: "Customs Service" <hlumm@bosnia.webone.com.au>

Greetings,

We have received a parcel for you, sent from France on July 9. Please fill out the customs declaration attached to this message and send it to us by mail or fax. The address and the fax number are at the bottom of the declaration form.

Kind regards,
Willa Dunlap
Your Customs Service

R0ot

I nearly believed one of these emails once, I mean i've worked as a techie for ages advising people never to believe these sort of emails, I would have clicked it and all (was for paypal) but then I realised my account wasn't registered to that email address and that's the only thing that saved me from clicking it, felt so stupid that day.

Kavinsky

We have received a parcel for you, sent from France on July 9.

Sent from France eh? Probably a letter of surrender.

Agonist

I just got one of those emails too, from Tory Ladner, Your Customs Service. My computer is very well protected (I hope) so extracted it and tried to open it but dear old Windows Vista couldn't manage it.
'Windows is checking for a solution to this problem'
I didn't use latex gloves or scan my pc so you're probably all infected now (as is yore ma)


Edit: I was expecting my mooncup in the post

purplesheep

Just got another spam email:

Dear Gentlemen,
Thank you for using our new service "Buy airplane ticket Online" on our website.
Your account has been created:

Your login: pink_piggy_ukn@yahoo.co.uk
Your password: pass2HDH

Your credit card has been charged for $439.87.
We would like to remind you that whenever you order tickets on our website you get a discount of 10%!
Attached to this message is the purchase Invoice and the flight ticket.
To use your ticket, simply print it on a color printed, and you are set to take off for the journey!

Kind regards,
Christian Tolbert
Midwest Airlines


I've recently bought flights online and I nearly freaked out when I saw the your credit card has been charged but then I realised that it was another bogus mail. Plus it says dear gentlemen, which I am not, collectively or otherwise......