With the multitude of changes happening with the UK government's online services it was only to be expected that scammers would try and jump on the bandwagon!
This email had links to a .zip file download hosted on a Dropbox account, which auto-downloaded if you clicked the link. The link appeared to go to the Government Gateway login but didn't! We are assuming a malicious payload of some type...
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:47:37 +0100
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To: bff7435b@kitchenplus.co.uk
Subject: Your online Gateway.gov.uk Submission
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[Government Gateway image link]
Electronic Submission Gateway
Thank you for your submission for the Government Gateway.
The Government Gateway is the UK's centralized registration service for e-Government services.
To view/download your form to the Government Gateway please visit [LINK REMOVED FOR YOUR PROTECTION]
This is an automatically generated email. Please do not reply as the email address is not
monitored for received mail.
[gov.uk image with link to download file as above]
The best place to find government services and information
If you get one do not click the links!
