E-shop Best Buy has received an order - with analysis

Post scam emails to warn other rental owners, or if you are not sure if an enquiry is genuine, put it up here and see what others think.
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E-shop Best Buy has received an order - with analysis

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Message:
E-shop **** has received an order addressed to you which has to be confirmed by the recipient within 4 days.
Upon confirmation you may pick it in any nearest store of ****.

Detailed order information is attached to the letter.

Wishing you Happy Thanksgiving!

****

Attachment:
Unknown. Deleted by virus scanner

YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW AT THIS POINT THAT THE EMAIL IS MALICIOUS :P

Email verification:
Using tool http://tools.email-checker.com/ showed that the from email address was not a valid email address. ie. it does not exist or has been suspended

Domain name check:
http://whois.domaintools.com showed that the domain name used in the email address, was in fact genuine and belongs to a long established company. ie. the domain name has been faked

Message header:
In Outlook, you open the email, click File/Properties then copy the section Internet Headers. Other email programs will be different.

Pasting the header into the tool http://www.iptrackeronline.com/email-he ... alysis.php show the source of the email to be Hong Kong.

As the company should be based in the USA, this confirms a malicious email.

I know it's not a rental scam but I've not received any lately. Hopefully it's still of use to someone.