I got an email through today that I was immediately cautious about. Partly because it was sent to an email address that’s been on the internet for years and receives pretty much no legitimate email, only spam, and partly because the message was in German (and actually came from a .as email address which is… American Semoa!).
My first thought was that it was a new virus that I hadn’t come across yet but after checking a few sites for new threats and running the attachment through 2 seperate AV progs, I decided to open it. Turns out it is one of these stock spam emails with all the details in the PDF.
I actually thought this was quite clever as the original message looks like a Fw: and any information that can be used to identify it as spam is enclosed in the PDF. It’ll be interesting to see how much they vary the content and names of the attachments to keep people on their toes.
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