A new scam? Phishing?

[Théière]

Had a slightly different approach from a scammer today.  This email proportes to be from Companies house in London/Wales.

" This message has been generated in response to the company complaint submitted to Companies House WebFiling service.

(CC01) Company Complaint for the above company was accepted on 12/09/2013.

The submission number is 2ZBMFTF9D0NO0NR

Please quote this number in any communications with Companies House.

All WebFiled documents are available to view / download for 10 days after their original submission. However it is not possible to view copies of accounts that were downloaded as templates.

Not yet filing your accounts online? See how easy it is...

Note: reference to company may also include Limited Liability Partnership(s).

Thank you for using the Companies House WebFiling service.

Service Desk tel +44 (0)303 8423 454 or email enquiries@companieshouse.gov.uk

Note: This email was sent from a notification-only email address which cannot accept incoming email. Please do not reply directly to this message."

It wouldn't wash with us because Companies House deals with Limited Companies and the Gite isn't a ltd Co and no Govt department ever works that quickly [:)].  It naturally had a file attached to it which no one should open.

[Pickles]

Strange. Haven't seen that one ... yet!

Form CC01 is nothing to do with "company complaints" - Companies House IIRC has nowt to do with that - but is simply a form to notify CH of the existence of restriction to amend the company's articles of association. As you say, the attached file will be a trojan of some kind.

[johnnyboy]

Yep, had a similar one this morning,

Case 984QVR87664Q4HNV

From "companies house", needless to say it went straight into the junk file!

Johnnyboy