Date and Time First Identified
- April 3, 2025 at approximately 9:30am
Phishing Method
- Email claiming to be from a company in France called Lactalis Group Imports & Export Inc.
- The word "Information" is misspelled in the subject of the email as "Inforrmation", a common indicator of a sloppy phishing attack.
- The email claims to be interested in building a business relationship with the recipient by importing products in bulk.
- The email instructs the recipient to reply to a suspicious Gmail account.
- Sender email domain does not match the name indicated in the email signature.
User Response
- Do not reply to the message
- Do not click on any links or attachments
- Mark the message as spam or junk
- Forward the message to phishing@dartmouth.edu
- Block the sender
Sample Unformatted Email
Subject: YOUR COMPANY PRODUCT INFORRMATION,
Dear Sir,
We send our sincere greetings to you from Lactalis Group Imports & Export Inc. here in Laval France.
Lactalis Group Imports & Export Inc. is one of the leading major importation companies duly registered with the Secretary of State of France and internationally licensed by the Offshore Asset Protection Trust.
It is properly formed in the right foreign jurisdiction that offers us the opportunity to do business with so many foreign companies with fully protected interests and assets.
We are contacting you because we are interested in importing your products in a large quantity.
Kindly furnish us with your product information so that we can proceed from there.
It is our desire to establish and build a long term business relationship with you.
kindly drop your reply to our purchase dept: lactalisgroup82@gmail.com
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.
Mr. Anael Dile
Chief Procurement & Marketing Manager
Lactalis Group Imports & Export Inc
10-20 Rue Adolphe Beck, Laval cedex
9, Mayenne 53089, France.