{"id":4162,"date":"2013-01-16T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2013-01-16T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:40:12","slug":"beware-of-fake-europcar-emails-spreading-a-virus-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4162","title":{"rendered":"Beware Of Fake Europcar Emails Spreading A Virus Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new virus is doing the rounds that is being spread by\u00a0<strong>fake\u00a0<\/strong>emails pretending to come from Europcar. Anyone who has recently booked a car or van with Europcar could easily be taken in &#8212;\u00a0<strong>but these emails do not come from Europcar and should not be opened.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The virus is a &#8216;Trojan horse&#8217; that will affect Windows computers and comes with a zip file attached.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve received several today (16\/01\/2013) &#8211; they look something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Subject:\u00a0Europcar invoice 215223418558<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The body of the email often includes text like this:<br \/>\n<tt>Please find your Invoice attached.<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>This is an automated message, please do not reply to this email.<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>Should you require further information, please contact Europcar UK Customer Services by emailing to CustomerServicesUK@europcar.com <\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>&lt;mailto:CustomerServicesUK@europcar.com&gt;.<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>Best Regards,<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>Europcar UK Ltd<\/tt><\/p>\n<p><strong>Attached file: EuropCar Invoice.zip<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>*These emails <\/em>do not<em> come from Europcar and are malicious. They are being sent by criminal hackers to infect your computer.*<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Don&#8217;t save or open the zip file attached to the email &#8212; just delete the email.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email virus alert: Be warned that a fake Europcar email with a zip attachment containing a virus is doing the rounds at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[1637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}