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Originally Posted by Luke.
A person at my work receives a lot of these along with other scam emails.
Most of them will be an email claiming to have a purchase order or invoice attached. Others include bank scams, paypal, telstra and ebay which can look very legit.
Sometimes there will be a "court documents" email scam which this person fell for and unleashed a crypto virus on their computer. She had a court case at the time so that is why she opened it.
Most of the time the email with have a .zip or .js attached which contain the virus.
Luckily the virus she opened didn't go through the server and I was able to restore a backup, otherwise all her files would have been toast!
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Yes nobody is safe these days. I'm very aware of these scams and even I've been nearly caught by a dropbox file originating from my solicitor who uses that on occasions to send me files, so I didn't think twice about it. One moment of inattention is all it takes. Luckily I'm using a hardware gate that stopped me in my tracks as I clicked on the link from the email. Otherwise I would have been toast. And I liked to think of myself as someone it would never happen to. Reality check... Shows nobody is safe. It's not a matter of "if" but "when" unfortunately.