Got this in my email today:
“Dear Customer,
Thank you for ordering from our internet shop. If you paid with a credit card, the charge on your statement will be from name of our shop.
This email is to confirm the receipt of your order. Please do not reply as this email was sent from our automated confirmation system.
Date : 08 Oct 2006 – 12:40
Order ID : 37679041
Payment by Credit card
Product : Quantity : Price
WJM-PSP – Sony VAIO SZ370 C2D T7200 : 1 : 2,449.99
Subtotal : 2,449.99
Shipping : 32.88
TOTAL : 2,482.87
Your Order Summary located in the attachment file ( self-extracting archive with “37679041.pdf” file ).
PDF (Portable Document Format) files are created by Adobe Acrobat software and can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not already have this viewer configured on a local drive, you may download it for free from Adobe’s Web site.
We will ship your order from the warehouse nearest to you that has your items in stock (NY, TN, UT & CA). We strive to ship all orders the same day, but please allow 24hrs for processing.
You will receive another email with tracking information soon.
We hope you enjoy your order! Thank you for shopping with us! ”
The attached file wasn’t a .pdf file but a file marked “37679041.zip” (and no, I didn’t open it).
Doing a little checking (like all of us TR wonks would do) I see that I am not the only one on my ISP that bought a laptop today. Wow, who said there was a recession ahead?
I imagine , had I opened the file, if it WASN’t an infected document, it would have politely given me a phone number, or a web site to contest this shipment. Where I would probably be asked information verifying who I was, and my credit card information.
The only problem is, I don’t own a credit card.