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Receipts Sent by E-mail

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Receipt invoice scam

How the scam works:

You receive an e-mail from a big chain store that you purchase groceries from on a regular basis (eg. Walmart, Superstore, etc). “We are now happy to offer online your last receipt. Please find it attached to this e-mail. Thank you for shopping with us”.

Most likely the attachment will be a Zip. file, that will contain a virus, keystroke logger, or malware. Look at the domain name of the sender’s e-mail. Is it the store’s name.com or does it have extra letters and numbers (bestbuy.com or bestbuy529a5.com)?

How to avoid:

Never open attachments from unknown senders.

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There are 1 Comment

  • On Friday, January 11, 2013, Zimbo wrote:

    I received one of these today in my email. The receipt claims I was in a town over 500 miles away at a Best Buy yesterday and made some purchases.
    Funny but I could have sworn I was at work yesterday and not at Best Buy.
    Of course I knew better than to click on anything within the letter or receipt.
    Scammers are everywhere and need to be taken care of in the most awful way.

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