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I'm not sure which category this belongs in.

So, I just got an email at my @verizon.net address that says:

"To whom it may concern,

Attachment is invoice 57408935889 as a PDF file:
2014_06rxxxxxxxx_sign.zip (there are some other numbers in there too).

The total amount for the Month of May 2014 is listed as: $337.66.

Sincerely,
regards your telekom

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For those who don't speak German—it's a phone bill from AT&T for May.
I tried to open the attachment, but my computer warned me not to because it lacks a "valid signature." I actually called AT&T, and they told me to just ignore it, saying it's likely just a scam.

With our AT&T account, we only have a landline and internet; we don't even have mobile phones.

Any advice? I assume someone or something from the outside grabbed my email address, which is why I received this. I hope so, at least...

I'm about 95% sure it's a scam.

For that other 5%—if you open the .zip file and there's an .exe sitting inside, then it's 100% a scam.😁

Why on earth were you even trying to open that attachment if you don't have any kind of contract with DT anyway? 😵

Also, some guy from T-Com was asking me whose name is on the email account. He wanted to know if a specific name shows up on the bill or somewhere else. I told him no—as you can clearly see in what I copied above. I thought maybe the name would be in the attachment, but mostly I just wanted to figure out what this charge was actually for.

By the way, the email came from noreply@telekom.de [A0186002@invalid.domain].

Lisa Myers said:Not really sure which subforum this belongs in.

So, I just got this email hit my inbox at my @comcast.net address today:

"To whom it may concern,

Attachment is invoice 57408935889 as a PDF file:
2014_06rxxxxxxxx_sign.zip (there are some extra numbers in there too).

The total amount for the Month of May 2014 is listed as: $337.66.

Regards your AT&T

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Basically, for anyone who doesn't speak German—it’s a phone bill from AT&T for May.
I tried to open the attachment, but my computer flagged it saying it lacks a "valid signature." I actually called AT&T, and they told me to just ignore it, basically saying it's probably just some bait.

We only have a landline and internet through AT&T; we don't even have mobile phones with them.

Any advice? I'm guessing someone or something out there scraped my email address and sent this. Fingers crossed...

https://anubis.iseclab.org/ you can run a solid scan right here

restlessnomad16 said:https://anubis.iseclab.org/ you can run a solid scan here

It scans perfectly, and if it comes up clean, you just pay and move on... right?

It's a scam. A quick search on Google turns up several hits regarding this exact email—the only difference being a few dozen bucks—along with warnings about the PDF attachment, which is supposedly a Trojan.

Someone asked... yeah, it's definitely a .exe. I didn't open the attachment. My software actually flagged it, warning me that the signature isn't official or something like that, but I can clearly see it's a .exe file.

Lisa Myers said:Someone asked... yeah, it's an .exe. I didn't actually open the attachment—my software flagged it anyway, saying the signature wasn't official or something like that—but I can see it’s definitely an .exe.

Well, I asked, and it's 100% a virus. I dealt with something pretty similar at my office once—someone was posing as the IRS and sending out fake notices or legal threats. The worst part is how easily people fall for it and just click away without even checking the file extension.

I just did some digging online and found a bunch of articles explaining how .exe files are frequently used to hide viruses.

Anyway, I guess we'll see if this happens again next month. If it does, I can always just shoot an email over to AT&T, forward them what I received, and ask if they can make sense of it.

But like the moderator said—there’s really no reason why I should be getting an invoice from them. I didn't sign anything, and I definitely don't remember clicking on anything suspicious. I'm honestly one of those people who tries to be extremely careful when I'm online.

Thanks, guys 🙂.

Honestly, don't let it get to you too much. I deal with these kinds of emails practically every single day—you know, those classic ones claiming there’s some technical glitch and I absolutely need to log in to my PayPal account immediately, even though the actual bank account linked to that old email address was closed over a year ago. It's like a broken record! And the worst part isn't even the spam itself, but the fact that you can't even reply to the email to politely tell them to stop sending you junk. It's just constant, whether it's fake alerts from Chase or even those intimidating letters from some random lawyer's office claiming I owe money. It's just one million different things happening all at once.