Virus Email - "First NetBank Third Party Payment" from Commonwealth Bank of Australia

The malware might steal sensitive information such as banking and social media account login details or make the victims' files on their computer unreadable and demand a ransom to make them readable again.

The Virus Email Message

Subject: First NetBank Third Party Payment

First NetBank Third Party Payment

Your first transfer to the following third party account(s) has been successfully processed:
From Account: **** **** **** 4924 Visa To Account(s): Monty Boykin 587-136 ***0022 China Unionpay $7,540.54 Assistance to Refugees

Date: 13/10/2015

Please check attached file for more information about this transaction.

Yours sincerely,
Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Please do not reply.to confirm this is a genuine email sent by the Bank, please check your inbox on the NetBank home page.

Recipients of the malicious email message are asked to delete it, and those who have been tricked into opening the malicious attachment, should use their antivirus software to do a complete or full scan of their computers.

Remember, never open an email attachment that has a name ending with ".zip" from a suspicious email message or from an email message that you were not expecting.

Click here for a list of email attachments that you should never open, regardless of where they came from.

Note: Some of the names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers in email samples on this website may have been impersonated.

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