Microsoft Office Mail Scam

Cybersecurity consultant Martin Pitman received a call from his mother, letting him know that a neighbor had received what appeared to be an Office 365 product in the mail, with a USB stick to install the productivity suite. The retired man didn’t seem to be a high value target. The stick included fairly high quality packaging. Plugging in the stick immediately showed a message that the computer had a virus, providing a toll-free number to call for supposed technical help.

Once on the phone, the phony support person directed the victim to install TeamViewer. Microsoft told Sky News it launched an investigation into the package. While these types of support schemes are extremely common, it’s more than a little unusual for an attacker to go to the expense of mailing out USB sticks.

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