A New Scam Format?

A New Scam Format?

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2 February 2025 at 10:22 #781600
Nigel Graham 2
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Or one new to me?

Usually the sending address is clear but this one was hidden; and I have not encountered that previously.

Not from the e-post service’s “View Source” tool though. This revealed it as, or through, a web-site called “www-dot-denum-dot-de.” German?

Although this prevented blocking the sender and domain, as presumably intended, I could still forward it to “report@ phishing.gov.uk”, and delete it.

The attack itself was fairly convention: a “last chance” of none previously, to claim something unexpected; with the attack itself hidden behind two image-notifier symbols.
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2 February 2025 at 12:14 #781624
Chris Gunn
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Nigel, I had a similar one the other day as well, no sender, but also I was able to send it to report phishing.

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2 February 2025 at 12:59 #781643
Nigel Graham 2
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We have so much to be on our guard all the time, but the sublety of omitting to show its address was thrown away by the obvious nonsense of the message.

I use BT Internet, and it has a tool called “View Source”. I don’t know if other providers offer similar. Most of the result is pure computer-ese – including long blocks of (hexadecimal?) language and the message’s formatting code – but it does show the originator as far as it can trace it.
2 February 2025 at 13:19 #781650
Vic
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I’ve only just thought of it, but I used to get loads of scam emails when I had a virginmedia email address. So much so I had to use a tool on their system to block them. Since I switched to an iCloud account a couple of years ago I’ve not had a single dodgy email.
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