Spam and Phising Email from Sony Ericsson

By the day, spam and phising emails are increasing. The convince sender name sometimes makes the email looks reliable. Sony Ericsson in a few days ago had announced its concise press release about spam and phising email that had been sent out to the public. The emails use Sony Ericsson brand as the sender name.

I just found such email in my gmail inbox, used asiauknokiag8@msn.com as the sender, entitled You have won Asia/UK Nokia Lottery WINNING NO:ASUK/34/36/45/12/06/LWD. Looks suspicious… . This kind of email are often found in my inbox.

Regarding this issue, here is what Sony Ericsson had stated:

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications is aware that a series of unsolicited emails have been sent to members of the general public from an email address that appears to bear the name ‘Sony Ericsson’ and which tells that the recipient has won a sum of money in a competition and requests that certain personal data be confirmed. These unsolicited communications are not from Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and are believed to be attempts to obtain personal data for fraudulent purposes. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications wishes to take this opportunity to apologise to members of the general public for any inconvenience or confusion caused by these fraudulent emails.

If you found that suspicious email in your inbox, just drop an email to Sony Ericsson: questions.gb@support.sonyericsson.com.

Like the mentioned example, the spam email usually says that recipient had won a sum of money and it asks for your personal data.

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