Australia Post has warned people to be wary of a new highly advanced scam

Scammers are scraping data from social media that allows them to personalise fraudulent emails and trap would-be victims into opening an attachment.

That attachment contains what security experts say is a new type of ransomware called "Locky".

Mailguard, the anti-virus and security company that discovered the virus this week, said that by scraping personal information such as full name, location and workplace from public profiles on social media sites, the cyber criminals could deliver highly personalised attacks.

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