Is this a virus or scam of some sort?

Question

I got this email? is it a scam or virus of some sort?

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Hello!

Attention! The wire sent to Kiril Fadeev, Moscow, Russia has been blocked by our security service.

Your credit card issuing bank has halted the transaction by the demand of the Federal Criminal Investigation Service (case No. 70937 since the recipient has been undergoing the international retrieval by the InterPol.

Please contact the closest Western Union office and make sure you have your ID card, the credit card that was used for making the payment, and the invoice file with you.

(The invoice file is attached to this message; please print it out and hand it to our agent.)

You can find the address of the closest Western Union agent on our website at http://www.westernunion.com

Thank you!

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Has my card detials been stolen or what?

this was in the junk mail section and the eail also came with a zip folder which I never opened.

So what is this someone explain?

Answer 1

Wow watch out cause if its a zip file, well then it could have contained a dangerous virus.

But it seems like a scam.

Answer 2

    I`m from Brazil and I got the same e-ml today (Monday, 25 August, 2008 2:14 AM). My computer system is FreeBSD (Unix).

I saw the file without open it, the zip folder is a file.exe.

It is probably a virus.

Bye...

e-ml:

**************************************...

Hello!

Attention! The wire sent to Kiril Fadeev, Moscow, Russia has been blocked by our security service.

Your credit card issuing bank has halted the transaction by the demand of the Federal Criminal Investigation Service (case No. 14595 since the recipient has been undergoing the international retrieval by the InterPol.

Please contact the closest Western Union office and make sure you have your ID card, the credit card that was used for making the payment, and the invoice file with you.

(The invoice file is attached to this message; please print it out and hand it to our agent.)

You can find the address of the closest Western Union agent on our website at http://www.westernunion.com

Thank you!

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Answer 3

Your identity should be fine. Delete the email.

Is best to not open, just delete mail from unknown senders, especially if in junk mail folder. And don't be tempted to open attachments.

Answer 4

This screams scam!  Delete without opening.  Other scams going on are dialog boxes that look just like windows telling you that your system is not protected and to "click here"  if you want full protection.

When you "click here" your homepage is hijacked and the hacker now has access to your computer.  

Answer 5

It is a scam.

If you use yahoo e-mail, click the spam button.

Answer 6

Just ask your self do you have a western union account?

Do a Full header check and see where the original email originated from.

Double check all the links.

On another note, even if the link to the website is the real link. Certain ISPS have not updated their servers from a potential phishing scam caused by DNS redirection. In which case even if the url is right, it will still send you to another url.

If your not sure, you can always contact western union through a telephone directory, instead of by the internet

Answer 7

IS SHT. NEVER CLIK ON LINKS IF YOUR NOT 100% SURE ... DELETE THIS c**p NOW .... DONT HAVE EVERYONE CLIKING ON LINKS ...WTF...........

Answer 8

Scam.

Answer 9

its scam and if you want to be sure that if you buy things by your card you can phone your card company and ask at you latest boughts, this way you also know if your card details are stolen or not.