Potentially suspect attachments

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Hello Doug,
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Are you using Email client or Browser to view your emails?
Thank you.

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HI,

I am currently receiving a large number of suspiscious emails of the general form "Attached is your invoice (etc etc)". These appear to come from bona fide addresses but are clearly not as in many cases I have had no contact with the company.

The attachments can be .doc, .xls or .zip.

I never open them but all my mail is scanned by AVG free and nothing is ever detected.

What is the nature of the threat here and should it be detected?

Thanks

Doug

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I'm using Outlook 2010 and win10

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Hello Doug,
Thank you for the information.
As we understand you are using AVG Antivirus free. If so, please be informed that  AVG Antivirus free not includes Anti spam(Prevent spam emails from unknown source) features. To avail Anti spam I kindly request you to please upgrade your AVG Antivirus free to Pro version.
Please feel free to get back to us for further assistance.
Thank you.

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Hello Doug,
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Are you using Email client or Browser to view your emails?
Thank you.

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I would not class these emails as spam.

I suspect the attachments are malicious. What type of threat is delivered in this way.

Doug