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liz_uk

Recieved the following email and a zip file with it :

Hello,

Your photograph has reached editing stage as part of an article we are publishing for our February edition of the Guardians business section. Can you check over the format and get back to us with your approval or any changes?
If the picture is not to your liking then please send a preferred one. We've attached the photo with the article here.

Kind regards,

William Morrison
Editor
https://www.Guardian.com



If you go onto Guardian.com, it is not the newspaper, but some weird design place. Could this be a Virus ?? My virus checker has checked it and nothing has come up, but i`m bambozzled by it.

Tried to reply to email, but it says `path unknown`.

Nile

I'm of the opinion that...........if I didn't contact this person/organisation first, it is unsolicited mail which I will delete without opening. Better to be safe than sorry.;)

nearlyrich

Nile wrote:

I'm of the opinion that...........if I didn't contact this person/organisation first, it is unsolicited mail which I will delete without opening. Better to be safe than sorry.;)

I got the exact same email yesterday twice ( 2 different publications) I used my spam filter as I don't use the email address they came in on for business.;)

Poppycat

Looks suspicous to me. It certainly isnt the paper. Removed email address but really they should be left on if its a spammer


12.1.83.51

Guardian Industries
2300 Harmon Rd
Auburn Hills, MI 48326
US

Finegan, Mike xxxxxxx@guardian.com
Guardian Industries
2300 Harmon Road
Auburn Hills, MI 48326
US
248-340-2350 fax: 248-340-2354

Ideal Technology Solutions hostmaster@xxxxxxx.COM
Ideal Technology Solutions
1025 N. Campbell Rd
Royal Oak, MI 48067
US
313 965 8125 fax: 313.965.8116

NS1.MANXNET.NET 64.118.139.49
NS.MANXNET.NET 64.118.139.50

Created: 08-Jan-1992
Updated: 31-Jan-2006 14:59:18 EST
Expires: 07-Jan-2011
Source: whois.networksolutions.com

Poppycat

They have a branch in UK

GOOLE
(Float Glass Plant)
Guardian Industries UK LTD
Rawcliffe Road
Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire
DN14 8GA, England
+44-1405-726800
+44-1405-726999 (fax)

hjb123

I too have received a few emails from this today. The first time I remember was definately the same as the above - from the guardian. The second was saying it was from the Trading somthing or other and aafter that I deleted them without reading them!

H

Poppycat

If anyone has the email still go into properties of the email and you seen there an IP address, post it here I will will trace if if you cant do this yourself.

Example removed sensitive data on this one as its legit

Return-path: <mailer@support.xxxxxxt.co.uk>
Received: from mail.xxxxxx.info ([2xx.78.78.xx] helo=www.xxxxx.info) <==IP address in the brackets [xxxxxx]
by ggggkkk.xxxxxxx.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43)

hjb123

But what can you do with it then?

Poppycat

Trace the source to see if its from the company or not could be a scam.

superscotsman

liz_uk wrote:

Could this be a Virus ?? My virus checker has checked it and nothing has come up, but i`m bambozzled by it.

Tried to reply to email, but it says `path unknown`.

it's suspicious. Dump it. There are viruses that will get past your defences as though they don't exist, and your virus scanner will not be able to detect it.

Heinz

liz_uk wrote:

Recieved the following email and a zip file with it :

My rule - never, ever, ever, open a .zip or .exe file which comes as an attachment to an e-mail (particularly an e-mail from an unknown source).

Delete it (and delete it from your deleted box) immediately.