I've just had an email, title: 2 minutes away from winning £500 worth of Megastore vouchers

From Chelsea Football Club, apparently. However, check the header and you'll see it's actually from [email protected].

Go to www.c-f-1.com and you're taken to http://app.communicator.com which displays a pdf file entitled:

Permission Email Communication Policy - Anti Spam.

What's even stranger is that another pdf file opened in another window - a setup guide for my new ISP.

Point of all this of course, is if you get one of these emails, delete the f**king thing.

Cheers Lofty, just got back from lunch and had the same email.

I've had the same e-mail - I get loads of spam on a regular basis but a bit odd if this one is targetted at members of this forum.

Not from here mate.

No attacks on the server, no admin entries.

Have you all signed up to something on Chelsea's site? Strange it's a Chelsea ad only targeting Chelsea fans with a megastore scam?

I got that email as well.

Thanks for the heads up Lofty.

No problem. The thing with that particular email was it looked genuine at a first and even second casual glance - I doubt very much whether it was targeted at members of this forum though, more likely Chelsea supporters. The one I received arrived at an ancient Tiscali address, one I only keep because it's got Chelsea in the name, but haven't used for years because it's such a spam-magnet.

Sorry mate, wasn't suggesting anything coming from this site, just wondering why something so specific has got through - probably something to do with CFC.

oh no I agree with you celery, very weird it's targeting Chelsea fans.

I've got it plus another one from a few days back from the same address flogging the Portsmouth match only on Chelsea TV. Could they be genuine?

I've got it plus another one from a few days back from the same address flogging the Portsmouth match only on Chelsea TV. Could they be genuine?

Well put it this way. If you follow the HTML Link in the second email, you'll see what looks like a half-finished page that includes this Enter Now link. And if you follow that, you're asked to download a file called askiaext.dll

Oh and from the email:

For your chance to win £500 worth of Megastore vouchers simply fill in the below online questionnaire.

Does that sound like an official Chelsea FC communication to you?

Isn't "[email protected]" the official sender address for mass mails from the club/megastore?

It is a marketing company working on behalf of Chelsea I reckon, just done a whois check. Just maybe their methods are not always the best.

I think you're right. I've done a little research and found the same company has a bit of a name for crap marketing. So for dodgy read: "if the club want a competition or a survey, surely they could afford to pay someone to do it properly". Because this lot sure as hell ain't.

Shall we continue tradition and blame Kenyon?

Shall we continue tradition and blame Kenyon?

No I shall write to them and offer our services... at a cost!!

Dodgy or not, I feel a bit neglected as I haven't received such a mail.

I didn't get that Spam. I think theShedEnd is in the clear.