Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Royal Australian Mint? Is this phishing?

Hi all,

I just got an email that is very odd. I'll paste here its text:



Now I haven't ordered anything online and surely not from the "Royal Australian Mint".

The attached file to the email has a "word" file icon, and its name ends with a .doc extension. I didn't open it, of course.

This is really well done and the fact that "they" know my name is "mario" really upsets me. And I wonder where this knowledge might come from.

The email address that sent this is labeled as Royal Australian Mint, but the address itself is [sale@newvisiontransport.net]


I just thought I should warn everyone. And if any of you has a similar experience please, do tell.

Thanks for the warning Mario.

No problem Richard. A bit more digging I just did got me here:

https://www.ramint.gov.au/news-media/news/phishing-emails

Apparently this is a known phishing scam. Still, how do they know my name? my email doesn't have it in full (only the initials: mcp)


So, from the real Royal Australian Mint, there you have it, don't open the attached file.

Cheers all

The recent breach I posted about has name, email, logins and in some cases passwords for a vast number of people so the ability to personalise the emails to you is quite simple.

http://www.talkmorgan.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/489107/Latest_personal_information_br#Post489107

You can look to see what sites have released your data into the wild by using the pwned site. https://haveibeenpwned.com/

If you register your email with this site then further breaches should result in an email to advise you if you are effected.

Don't think a word/excel/powerpoint is a safe attachment as these can execute applications which can download other things. Your anti-virus package should catch these. If you are using a Mac it is even less likely to cause a glitch, bit not impossible. As always close the email. Search for the text using google to see if it is a known scam. Update your virus software and run a scan.

Thanks for the heads up.