You get an email that looks official titled “Booking Confirmation / ADV98863L”
It goes on
“BOOKING CONFIRMATION”Did you really make this hotel booking?
“We are pleased to confirm your reservation and look forward to welcoming you to the Park Avenue Hotel. You will find your booking details below.”
“Please print booking confirmation attached and present at reception when checking in.”
Then lots of details about the supposed booking.
Now, many people’s first reaction may be to assume that someone has booked in their name and they had better phone the hotel immediately to cancel the booking.
The could look up the phone number on the Internet but may unthinkingly open the email attachment expecting it to have the phone number.
Of course this is just a scam designed to get you to open the attached file which may contain a virus or other malware.
Although the email is well written, it is obviously fake.
The senders email address is @paperlow.co.de which is clearly not the Park Avenue Hotel.
And in this case the email is sent to a general email address not a person and there are no contact details.
Fake.
If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.
I received an email for a hotel booking I didn’t make, as mentioned in the article my first thought was to inform them that I wasn’t the one who made it so they wouldn’t hold a room for someone not actually going.
My second thought was not to open the email attatchment my email address gets 1a lot of spam emails.
I always check my email using my phone which cuts of the part after @ which makes it look more believable the one I received was (name of the hotel and state) @evt.com
So I didn’t actually click on the attatchment so I’m not sure what would come up but here is the email –
Thank you for choosing to book with us.
Hotel: ( was a hotel from another state)
Arrival: 16/03/18
Departure: 18/03/18
Room: 1 QT King – Mountain River View
Cost: AUD 358.00
Daily rates:
179.00
Please find further details and relevant terms & conditions in the attached booking confirmation
We look forward to welcoming you to our hotel.