Another one to warn your employees about. The bad guys do not hesitate to exploit the most basic fears of people; the sudden death of a loved one. The message claims to be from a funeral home and notifies the recipient about an upcoming funeral and instructs them to click a link to view their invitation and more details about the ceremony.
Of course the email is a phishing scam and clicking on the link opens a compromised website that tries to download Trojan malware to the workstation and makes it a zombie connected to a botnet. Here is a picture how this scam looks:
The example you see supposedly is from Eubank Funeral Home. This is a forgery, and the Eubank Funeral Home is warning people about the phishing attack on its website.
There are different versions all stealing the identity of different funeral homes. The subject lines, the way they look and other things are changed but they all link to compromised websites that try to download malware to the workstation.
