Email Scammers - FedEx guise.

Me too. Getting at least one a day. Straight into my antispam older.

Darrian,
sorry I didn't see your post as I have just put one up myself.

Fedx problems have been round for awhile but this one is quite sophisticated.

There are heaps of scams that ask you to open an attachment.

There are also others where even previewing the email can infect your computer.

ISPs may try to filter these according to the preferences YOU specify in YOUR account, but many slip through.

An excellent defence is an email filtering program that allows you to see your emails on your ISP's email server and evaluate them BEFORE you download them to your computer. You can read the text that tries to suck you in and mark any that are sus for deletion AT THE SERVER, so they never get to your computer. One such program (there may be others) also allows you, with one click, to report a spam to a central database. When the database gets enough reports from worldwide you will never see that sender again.

The program I use is Mailwasher from a kiwi outfit here.

It is excellent and worth your consideration. I've been using it for years and recommend it.

No affiliation, etc, etc. Just a very satisfied customer.

Going to answer Phil who replied to my post that has been locked because of duplication.

No this was not easy to pick up as included in the mail was, who we had ordered from + their name and email address. We actually were expecting a parcel. Also a con note number.

I baulked because it shouldn't have been Fedex as it was local.

FYI: there are at least 300 known scams listed on WA ScamWatch website, internet based ones abound, especially email based. add to this: fake bank sites, skimming devices, identity theft , lucky lotto numbers, nokia fake winner text message... you have won a $million , 'friends' on social media sites and so on......the crims are very smart now, even can sell your home and $ goes to geuss where..Nigeria for one.
its getting common for them to piggy back using info from some transaction youve done recently and its then easier to get trapped.
personally, i dont keep any pers info on PC, no banking and so on as some trojans can get past AVirus as happened to me once. theres also cold callers ( one was PC Doctor) who says you have a problem with your computer and they can fix it...yeh, sure!
all your pers info accessed, accounts raided, PC trashed and it costs you about $200 US up front! report the emails as phishing or fraudulent to authorities for a start.
look out potential victims!
MG.