Still Another Email Scam

Blanket emails are sent allegedly from a company's Customer Support office. The wording of the first sentence of the email are meant to hook the reader.

We recorded a payment request from "Office Max" to enable the charge of $28.80 on your account.

Here's another similar hook

We recorded a payment request from "Mutual of Omaha" to enable the charge of $7008.18 on your account.

And here's another similar hook

We recorded a payment request from "Belk" to enable the charge of $28.10 on your account.

The wording of the remainder is the same. It tries to get the reader to download a spurious program attached to the email

The payment is pending for the moment.

If you made this transaction or if you just authorize this payment, please ignore or remove this email message. The transaction will be shown on your monthly statement as "Office Max".

If you didn't make this payment and would like to decline it, please download and install the transaction inspector module (attached to this letter).

It goes without saying, not to do so, but to delete the email.

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