“I’ve gotten several very suspicious emails lately. Most recently, I got an email confirming an airline reservation that I never made, but it had a .zip attachment, something a real airline would never do.”
I received much more personal service. I received a telephone call from someone who had an accent an awful lot like someone from Pakistan or India. They had my name, address, information about one of the client computers, and more. They pretended to be a contractor for Microsoft offering anti-malware solutions. When I pretended to play their game and insisted on some proof of their Microsfot authorizations, they strung me along for a long while before abandoning the effort and hanging up.
They were very obviously the crackers who had hijacked some of the clients, and they thought they could do some social engineering to persuade me to give them more access and control. I tried to report the incident to Microsoft security, but they just put me off to someone in India who then tried to sell me tech support at costs exceeding what I paid for the computer that had been compromised. So much for Microsoft as usual....
Most people get spam like that all the time. They're obviously phony.
Sorry, WhiskeyX, meant that for the person who said it (Fresh Wind).