[plug] WARNING: ***NASTY*** virus loose [attachments sliced]

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Sun Feb 15 14:15:36 WST 2004


This arrived with a 72kB PIF attachment, pretty much guaranteed to be a 
virus. If you use MS-Windows for reading your email, delete it on 
sight. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES READ A MESSAGE LIKE IT.

----------  Fwd; originally to mailerdamon9286X@$THISDOMAIN ----------
Subject: You use illegal File Sharing ...
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:19
From: $MYADDRESS
To: mailerdamon9286X@$THISDOMAIN

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
62.204.56.129 . The contents of your computer were confiscated as an
evidence, and you will be indicated. In the next days you will receive
the charge in writing.

In the Reference code: #17699, are all files, that we found on your
computer.

The sender address of this mail was masked, to fend off 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

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If you read the mail on MS-Windows, I'm sure you'll get a virus but you 
also risk shipping personal details off to Lord knows where.

Cheers; Leon




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