Millthorpe food and bed breakfast business owner Mark Logan said he received the email, supposedly from an employee of the Orange Ex-Services' Club, last week.

Mr Logan said it looked like an invoice and was trying to trick people into clicking onto a link to read the details.

"I knew it was a scam because I've never had any dealings with the Ex-Services' Club," he said.

Mr Logan deleted the email and urged anyone else who received it to do the same.

A spokeswoman for the club said they were aware it was circulating in the community.

"If you received any spam delete it straight away," she said.

She said there had not been data breaches at the club.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Scamwatch website said there had been an increase in scams since the spread of the coronavirus.

It said they had received about 1000 reports of various scams since the outbreak started.

"Scammers are using the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) to take advantage of people across Australia," it said.

The scams included 'phishing' where scammers pretended to be from real and well-known businesses, similar to the scam in Orange.

It said scam emails pretending to be from banks, travel agents, insurance companies and telecommunications companies were also circulating.

Scamwatch said the emails aimed to achieve a variety of attacks including luring you into opening malicious links or attachments, gaining remote access to your computer and seeking payment for a fake service or something you did not buy.

It said about $36.5 million had been stolen from people in Australia through scams in the first three months of this year.

Scamwatch said it had received 36,205 reports of people being scammed in that time.

The most reported scams were for phishing. With more than 7500 reports this year it is twice as prevalent as any other reported scam.

However, investment and dating scams result in the most money lost in Australia, accounting for about $25 million.

Phone and email are the most likely ways scammers will try to contact people.

Scamwatch figures also showed people over 65 were most likely to lose money through scams.

And the figures showed women had been scammed out of about $20 million this year and men about $16 million.