Scam, Spam or a Virus?

[lawbinded]

I have received these emails today at exactly the same time with the titles:

United service parcels id: 84722
United service parcels id: 01111

From the address: adminssu@ups.com

It reads: Dear customer.


The parcel was sent your home address.
And it will arrive within 3 business day.

More information and the tracking number are attached in document below.

Thank you.
© 1994-2011 United Parcel Service of America, Inc.


It had an attachment which appears to be a pdf file with the adobe pdf icon, but windows information states that it is an application of about 37kb is size. The company is called: JbfbreyIn software.

I've done a virus scan and nothing turned up. I'm not expecting any deliveries. Just wanted to know if anyone else ever received something like this?

[BusFact]

I have received some emails to that effect and deleted them immediately. If I was to receive a UPS parcel I would know about it. I'd also track it on a website, not an attachment.

I would also expect that UPS stands for United Parcel Services and not "United service parcels" as used in the id references. I think the scammer made an oops there.

[AndyD]

I would also expect that UPS stands for United Parcel Services and not "United service parcels" as used in the id references. I think the scammer made an oops there.

Probably a small hic-up in the translation for Nigerian into English :-)

[brycibee]

Do not download the attachment! Stupid me did, and it turns out its a virus called Win 7 2011 Security.

You can read up on it here: http://www.precisesecurity.com/rogue...security-2011/

[lawbinded]

Probably a small hic-up in the translation for Nigerian into English :-)

LOL...