Would Royal Mail email me or is it a dodgy email?

hoyles10

I've received an email from Royal Mail with a delivery invoice attachment which I haven't opened as yet. The email reads:

We missed you, when trying to deliver.

Please view the invoice and contact us with any questions.

We will try to deliver again the following business day.

Royal Mail.

Would RM really email people of could it be some sort of virus that someone has sent out.

It's saying it's been sent from delivery@royalmail.com.

hoyles10

That's what I thought and can't work out how they could have got it as i'm sure i've not given it them for any reason although we've ordered and posted quite a few things recently.

I have no intention of opening it unless it's confirmed that they've sent it. I had a quick search to see if anyone else has had anything like this before but couldn't find anything.

mjm3346

Delete it, almost certainly an attempt to instal the Zeus bot or something like it.

mjm3346

Try a google search for

royal mail zeus bot

hoyles10

mjm3346 wrote: »

Try a google search for

royal mail zeus bot

Many thanks for that i've deleted the email.

Although I didn't open the email or attachment I think I might run a virus scan just in case.

cyberbob

There's loads of these flying around ignore them. Get a better spam filter. RM will leave a card if they try and deliver

hoyles10

I'm not massively well up on computers, I didn't actually open the email it just opened in the view box below my inbox and I didn't touch the attachment, should my computer be alright or could it have picked up the virus?

Pound

The email would probably have contained a PDF (document) file which is normally safe to open but there is a new vulnerability where viruses can hide inside these files.

As long as you didn't open it, you'll be OK.

hoyles10

Wonderful, thanks Pound for that and everyone else for their advice. I normally get some rubbish emails but this is the first time i've had one of any dodgyness that I know of.

Coopdivi

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/zeus_pdf_spyware/