UK Cards Limited and Huntingdon Mail Order email hoax
6th December 2003

No you didn't buy an iPod Music Player ...

This email is certainly a hoax. It takes the form of a 'receipt' for an iPod Music Player for £399.95 from Huntingdon Mail Order. Huntingdon Mail Order doesn't appear to exist and if you use the telephone number given, you will actually be calling Cambridgeshire Police and receive a recorded message to say that this email is a hoax.

Its hard to understand what this email actually intends to do but cause anarchy. There are no attachments and no link to any web page. Perhaps its just a little prank by a bored scammer?

The email emanates from Blue Yonder's mail servers - IP address 213.48.75.108 which is listed at a couple of mail abuse sites as being used to relay spam email.

Since there is no perceived threat involving this email, the best advice is to simply delete it. Cambridgeshire's Police message goes on to say that you should keep an eye on your bank and credit or debit card statements. This is sound advice at any time, email hoax or no email hoax. You should always check every transaction on your statements to ensure all transactions are legitimate (even banks make mistakes!)

If you have received this hoax email, please remember that it
is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

Take a good look at the following images, because this email hoax may be coming to an inbox near you!

The Email ...