This con, made to look like an email from Argos (but there are more from other well-known establishments - for example; Morrison’s) have been sent out in the past weeks, apparently offering you the chance to win a £500 prize.

But Action Fraud has told us that the email contains two potentially malicious hyperlinks. There’s one hidden within the ‘unique code number’ and another one on the bottom of the message under ‘click here’ to unsubscribe from emails.

The National Fraud Investigation Bureau has received more than 20 recent reports of this phishing email and although all of them were exactly the same, they were sent from different addresses, such as:

kentavious@bate208.fireandfame.com;

prince@textto232.concentendeavors.com

sedna@e3da34a06.findgoodtrades.com

The email asks you to click on a link to a £500 gift card. But, guess what? There is no gift card.

If you click, the chances are that the fraudsters will ask for your bank account details in order to make the transfer, which will never arrive.

DO NOT DO IT!