Spam email pretending to be Very Catalogue

G51shopaholic

Been a Very customer for years & years.

Also have spam protection on laptop & notebook.

got a funny email pretending to be from Very Customer services but it didn't look right, and when i click the link my McAfee popped up warning me the "link" was suspicious.

WARNING TO ALL VERY CUSTOMERS BEWARE :money:

Ectophile

If the email looked dodgy, why did you click on the link?

I've been getting these recently, but I've never been a Very customer. I also get emails supposedly from banks, BT, HM Revenue & Customs, and numerous other organisations. They are all dodgy.

If you are using an email application, rather than webmail, you should be able to see where the link goes to just my hovering the cursor over it, but not clicking. Check the status bar. If it isn't the organisation it should be, then the email is bogus. Or else it is one of the really annoying companies who use a marketing company to send out their emails, and the link goes to the marketing company.:mad:

Very.co.uk_company_representative

G51shopaholic wrote: »

Been a Very customer for years & years.

Also have spam protection on laptop & notebook.

got a funny email pretending to be from Very Customer services but it didn't look right, and when i click the link my McAfee popped up warning me the "link" was suspicious.

WARNING TO ALL VERY CUSTOMERS BEWARE :money:

Hi,

We are sorry to hear that you have received email spam purporting to be from us.

If you still have the email you can forward this to our Customer Security team at [EMAIL="CustomerSecurity@shopdirect.com"]CustomerSecurity@shopdirect.com[/EMAIL] who would be happy to look into this further. If they receive the email directly from yourself they may well be able to trace the source of the emails and prevent any more from being sent to you.

Hope this helps.

Dave
Very Network Team

StormyNight_2

it's a quite simple scam, they will send you an invoice which pretends to be an escrow service ran by Google Checkout or Paypal or something and it will say that you need to transfer money to a specific bank account.

The invoice will be a fake and the money won't be going to companies which are mentioned in the fake invoice headers, it's some mule's bank account.

Once you transfer the money it's gone.

You should report the email the used to contact you to FBI and http://emailbusters.org