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    From Avon Kerr@21:1/5 to Ralph Fox on Mon Jun 5 09:48:47 2017
    Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> wrote:

    Recently received phishing email.
    Antivirus also reports that the attached .doc file is


    Thanks for sharing this Ralph.

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  • From geoff@21:1/5 to Ralph Fox on Mon Jun 5 12:37:42 2017
    On 4/06/2017 7:20 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:

    Recently received phishing email.
    Antivirus also reports that the attached .doc file is infected.


    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    From: EFTPOS New Zealand <info.eftposnewzealand@gmail.***>
    To: **** someone else's email address *****

    Hi,

    We are at the last stage of making refund to your bank account.

    Please check the attached document and acknowledge that all information
    you earlier provided are correct.

    Please reply to this email as soon as you can.

    Thank you,
    EFTPOS NEW ZEALAND

    (c) Copyright (c) 2017 EFTPOS New Zealand Limited.
    All rights reserved. | Website Terms of Use | Privacy Policy.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


    Underline style on "Website Terms of Use" and "Privacy Policy" to make them look superficially like links (but they are not).

    Received headers indicate sent from or through a UK IP address.




    I've been getting half a dozen of these a day for weeks (or months).
    Pretty obvious usually.

    One I had yesterday was titled "One word - YOU'VE WON" .

    geoff

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