Spam Email Sent To ARLA Members

An email claiming to be sent from ARLA was sent out yesterdat, however it contains a virus as an attachment.

Recipients of this email should ignore and delete it, however for anyone who has mistakenly opened the attachment should ensure that their antivirus is up to date and run a full antivirus scan.

The email is headed 'Important Announcement' and reuqests recipients to download the attached document, sign it and return it as soon as possible.

The majority of spam filters will remove or block the email and wherever it slipped through, Microsoft Office would not open the document and prompted the recipient with a warning of its danger.

The spam email gets round this by saying: “Please if your browser isn’t viewing the document kindly enable content to view.”

The email was apparently signed by David Cox, who yesterday said he cannot be certain that it went out only to ARLA members. All members of NFoPP were warned about the hoax.

Cox himself was alerted to it by a number of members.