That is shitty. To be honest scammers have no cares or remorse, they will do absolutely anything to get money and cancer emails like this are sent without a second thought.
I bet you they sent that email to 100000000000 emails hoping that at least one of those people has sent in blood to a legit doctor recently for analysis and are waiting for results so will probably fall for it (They also do car insurance scam emails, parcel delivery and so on to try and catch at least 1 person out). The sad thing is there probably will be a few people who have sent blood in but are not very good at technology, so will believe the results, panic for no reason and download the attachment. Often the scam attachments these days contain a CryptoLocker virus. This is a serious "ransomware" virus that can't be removed with anti virus software or anything. It encrypts important folders on someones computer (pictures, "my documents" and folders containing important things) and password's it with a very secure key. The Cryptolocker software then demands something crazy like £300 to be paid in 7 days or less. If you make the payment, you get the secure key to remove Crytolocker. If you don't then the secure key is deleted off the server for good and you can never gain access to your files again.
MillyOfLeValley - Yeah I know that scam. I hate all the calls from foreign call centres as 99.9% of the time they are scams. I think what they do with the computer scam is claim you have a virus, then say they will fix it for x amount of cash. After payment is made to them they will either say "yeah we fixed it now" (Even though they can not access your computer) or give you a link to a fake anti virus software that pops up, claims it's found 100 viruses and cleaned them. Even though it's actually just eye candy. There are other variants of this scam too.
To show what these people are like we had a call the other week from a foreign call centre. Same old crap, we have won this or that. When I said we are aware that it is a scam the guy showed his true colours and started using the F word telling me to F off and F my mum too. It was constant swearing until I hung up.
You could try and register with the telephone preference service (TPS):
This opts you out of nuisance calls.... except calls from foreign call centres but you can report them through that website.
Another bit of info... Did you know that it's likely the foreign call centres got your number from the electoral roll? (or at very least because of it). When people send back the forms a lot of people unknowingly opt in to be placed on the edited electoral register. The edited electoral register basically contains your details and passed on and sold for marketing purposes... As quoted on their website:
"The edited register is available for general sale and can be used for commercial activities such as marketing"
So always opt out of being on the edited register
