[Blue Sky 2]

Received this email yesterday with an attachment, panicked a bit because I had been in Scotland last year, wondered if I had a fine or something I did not pay, anyway my partner tried to open the attachment. I phoned the courts in Scotland (L Mcnamara does work at the Scottish court) but was told they are aware of the email, dont know where it came from, to ignore and delete it.
I dont know if its a coincidence but I was unable to log onto my bank in the normal manner. From my banks website someone or something was taking me to a bogus log in page and was asking for my full pin and password to continue with the log in. Usualy I am asked for 3 various digits from my pin and password.

The same sort of scam tried last year to get my log in details so luckily I was aware.

I have spent all day backwards and forwards with online security and the bank getting it sorted.

If you recive this email delete it.

L McNamara (L McNamara@scotcourts.co.uk)

Notice to Appear,

Hereby you are notified that you have been scheduled to appear for your hearing that will take place in the court of
London in January 31, 2014 at 10:00 am.

Please bring all documents and witnesses relating to this case with you to Court on your hearing date.
 
The copy of the court notice is attached to this letter.
Please, read it thoroughly.

Note: If you do not attend the hearing the judge may hear the case in your absence.
 
Yours truly,
L.McNamara
Clerk to the Court.

[jason1]

Had totally same email this morning,i never open them even keep getting ones where they say your order is on the way amazon when i know i havent ordered anything

[rosskesava]

You should a full anti virus scan of your pc.

Personally, I never open any attachments unless I know who the email is from.

http://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2014/1/29/notice-to-appear-in-court-virus-email-message/

[Paul Coleman]

Obviously it's better not tyo open them.  However, and please don't take my word for this, if it's a .doc file, you will almost certainly be safe opening it in Wordpad which is built into many Windows versions.  Wordpad doesn't run the macros that Word does.  Other extensions probably worth avoiding are .exe and .zip.

[Blue Sky 2]

I have had that done a couple of times last night and today by Guru Aid associated to Mcafee, they said our computer was safe after the first scan but it did not get rid of the bogus log in page. Guruaid have been very helpful and been trying to resolve the issue all day, seems to be ok now.

[PoleKing]

HMRC and courts don't do things online.
Only local government will send you an email.
Crown or magistrate, it'll come through Royal Mail.

[steve rix]

Why the hell would you open something like that?

[PoleKing]

Why the hell would you open something like that?

He thought it was porn