I received an email w/attached PDF from Enterprise rent-a-car. Maybe. Not seeing the tell-tales pf phishing emails I’ve seen before.
I haven’t rented a car for something like 15 years, but now I’m wondering if someone got hold of my info and is charging me so I’m tempted to open the attachment.
Talk me down!
alstroemeria
Talk me down!
“Curiosity killed the cat!”
“But satisfaction brought it back”?
Official response? Haven’t rented a car in several years? It’s very thin ice you’re on. Simply opening an attachment could sting your machine.
Besides curiosity, what could be the justification for taking a chance???
TOSS IT.
Create an Enterprise account. The email came to your email. If it shows as an account already exists then identity theft would be likely. You could also call Enterprise to check if their is a rental associated with your email.
Hop online and check all your credit card accounts.
YewGuise
Hop online and check all your credit card accounts.
Yew beat me to it. Meant to mention it in first response.
(Here, just for grins, checking the CC and bank pages first thing every morning is SOP.)
Do you have a fairly uncomplicated email address? Chances are that the renter simply made a mistake in entering their email address. (That happened when someone used my “junk” yahoo address mistakenly. I opened the .pdf, since it was clearly from Enterprise, located the proper person on Facebook easily, and forwarded the receipt to him. He thanked me.)
Not seeing the tell-tales pf phishing emails I’ve seen before.
Maybe you have already done this, but see what the sender’s Email address is (not just who your Email program calls the sender). On a PC, I can hover the mouse cursor over the “sender’s identification” (which might be, say, “Home Depot”) and it will reveal the sender is actually flimflam576@gmail.com. Since I don’t think a company would use such an Email address to send out info/questions, I know it’s Spam/fishing.
This works on my PC and my iPad, but not on my Android phone. I’ve seen “the tell-tales signs of phishing” becoming less, so someone is checking their spelling and syntax.
Do you have a fairly uncomplicated email address?
yup - it’s why I get things from a Hyundai dealer on the other side of the country and I used to get emails about game site registrations. I know who they are and they aren’t related to me.
I suppose you could call the number on the back of your credit card company. They’d see if your card was used for a deposit or anything.
Yes, I have a very simple email address. I used to get someone’s communications from their pharmacy middleman. I had to contact the company a few times before they got it sorted. And I got all the group messages from a women’s group in another state before someone believed me when I said I wasn’t in the group. And I still get messages for “Ricky.”