Here are samples of emails that have been received. After a cursory scan, these were all determined to be fake and were deleted.
Why is it fake?
- I don't have any dealings with cable.net.co (and .co is Columbia)
- There is no company signature or name in the email
- Poor grammar in the text
- The attachment is a compressed/zip file
Why is it fake?
- I don't have any dealings with Wahl Canada
- The company mentioned (Wahl Canada) does not match the email address (@uni.net.co) which is from Columbia (.co)
- It wasn't actually addressed to me (addressed to a different address)
- They don't have my name (just a space after "Hello")
Why is it fake?
- I don't have any dealings with The Clorox Company
- The company mentioned (Clorox) does not match the email address (@skyvaultwebdesign.com)
- The company used part of my email address (firstname.lastname) in the greeting - they don't have my actual name
Why is it fake?
- I may or may not have dealings with RBC
- The company mentioned (RBC) does not match the email address (deise.leo@campolimpopaulista.sp.gov.br) and .br is Brazil.
- The tone of the email is threatening
- A real RBC email would have additonal contact information/options
- Hovering over the link displays shows that clicking it would send me somewhere completely unrelated: http://sikishikayesioku.org/rbc/bank/