Unexpected order confirmation by e-mail

*Scarlett

Hi.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post (apologies if it's not).

I have today received 3 e-mails from a company with which I have had no previous contact - Isagenix International. They appear to sell health / weightloss products.

The first was to welcome me, the second to confirm an order for NZ$267 and the third to congratulate me for choosing autoship for the products.

The order gives a name and address in New Zealand which appears to relate to a health / medical consultant when I googled it. My e-mail address bears no resemblance to any of this person's details so it's not likely that it was a typo.

I do sometimes get spam e-mails but they would normally go straight to the junk file. These went to the inbox but with some of the content blocked due to unknown sender.

One of the e-mails gives payment info - last 4 digits of visa card which does not match any of my cards.

Should I be worried about this? Has anyone heard of any scams from this person or this company? I googled the company name and it does come up with some info but it seems to relate mainly to their products not working and bogus business opportunities.

Should I contact the company? I'm always wary of sites that I don't know or have not been recommended and I don't want my e-mail address registered with them.

Any advice appreciated.

david39

It will be some form of scam.

Most likely, they have bought your email address in a long list from some other spammers and have sent you a teasing test email to entice you to reply.

If you reply, they know that your address is live and you will then receive an increasing amount of spam from, not only them, but loads of other spammers that they sell your details on to.

My advice is not to reply to it.

Freddie_Snowbits

You have been infected by a virus, I would immediately do a complete reinstall of Windows to prevent any further damage!

System

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

You have been infected by a virus, I would immediately do a complete reinstall of Windows to prevent any further damage!

Oh shut up!

*Scarlett

Freddie are you being serious? I'm very disturbed to know that I'm infected!!

Is there any other way to resolve this as I have no idea where the original windows disc or product keys are. (I'm not very tech savvy or organised in that respect).

pmduk

Ignore him, he's being stupid again, in the mistaken idea it's funny.

*Scarlett

Thanks to all who have replied.

So would the general advice be to ignore these e-mails? (and not take the drastic step of re-intalling windows!:eek:)

It just concerns me that they have come into my in-box from a seemingly legitimate company (albeit with some bad reviews for the product but not for financial scams).

neilmcl

It's just a phishing email, not all spam is caught, ignore it and send it to your junk folder. You'll get many more where that came from.