Monday, December 22, 2003
Ooooohhh!Nasty, nasty, devious virus writers.
Not only do they send shitty little programs to screw up your computer, but they send it attached to emails designed to scare the crap out of unsavvy users.
Check this out... I just recieved it...
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by law.
We hereby inform you that your computer was scanned under the IP 195.120.34.59 .
The
contents of your computer were confiscated as an evidence, and you will be
indicated.
You get the charge in writing, in the next days.
In the Reference code: #12417, are all files, that we found on your computer.
The sender address of this mail was masked, to protect us against mail bombs.
- You get more detailed information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
- Department for "Illegal Internet Downloads", Room 7350
- 935 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Washington, DC 20535, USA
- (202) 324-3000"
Now with all the crap going around from the RIAA and now the European Union passing laws that will allow the same kinda thing here, some poor people are gonna fall for this.
The giveaways?
Most obvious was a virus attached to it.
The lousy english.
The fact that it refers to the FBI, but comes from an address in germany.
Biggest giveaway of all, and the reason I knew right from the getgo that this was bullshit... that's not and never has been my IP address.
What a bunch of jerks.
Labels: computers
Steve 12:43 PM [+]
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