Phishing email from Umusic?

[Richard]

Hello Dave and everybody!

I just looked at the email again, and it came from the normal 'do not reply' address that Universal use when they send out to the mailing lists. I'm convinced it's only market research.

Richard

[postscript]

dave said:

Hi Peter,

As I said in my earlier message, the return address is the web domain vvhp.net and that is used by Universal Music for much if not most of their promotional activity... including Hayley's offiicial website. So it's genuine, albeit annoying as the questionnaire is far too long.

... It is an annoying but probably genuine email (well mine is) and anyone who thinks otherwise must provide the evidence or stop suggesting it or we could get in trouble with Universal.

This is, however, a good thread for reminding people of the dangers.

Cheers, Dave

Thanks Dave. You are quite right that one must be careful not to cast aspersions accidentally, and certainly deliberately was never intended. However, my point was that even a return address can be misdirected elsewhere, but if they are supplying information to the recipient then that may well be another matter. When I was caught out by a false Amazon.com site it was by using a seemingly legitimate return address on Amazon.co.uk!

As you rightly say, we're not wanting to scare people nor sow nasturtians but occasional warnings of 'due care and attention' do not come amiss.

Peter S.