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Thread #86851   Message #1617932
Posted By: Flash Company
01-Dec-05 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fake Fbi/Cia message, virus threat
Subject: BS: Fake Fbi/Cia message, virus threat
Have just received two e-mails this a.m. reading someting like this:-
We have detected your log in on up to thirty illegal sites, a list of questions is attached which you must answer.
They appeared to be from a ligit FBI or CIA site, but my anti-virus clocked them as infected, and as I am in the UK, I consider myself to be a bit out of their jurisdiction (at least for a while!)
I deleted them and then went to the official FBI site. They have a section covering e-mail fraud, and list this E-mail as one on the rounds at the moment. It is infected with a variant of the W32/sober virus, not sure what it does, but sounds nasty!
The FBI assert that they do not send unsolicited e-mails and advise recipients to delete unopened.
This virus is apparently the one which is the new 'big danger', I seem to be receiving a lot of spam infected with it. Watch out folks!

FC