Oh Joy! I'm About To Be "Indicated".

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Got this in my e-mail this morning:

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
172.250.83.86 . 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: #10211, 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

It came with an attachment (of course) which I didn’t bother to download. Any of y’all get this, and didn’t you just laugh your buns off?

Q

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Presumably the attachment was some kind of executable file?

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MPSIMS, anyone?

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No, actually it wasn’t. It had a reference number which ended in .com. Also it came from a yahoo.com e-mail address. Some kid getting his jollies, I guess.

Q

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Yeah, you’re right, cm. Had a brain fart early this morning. Please move it for me, kind-hearted mods?

Thanks

Q

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Heh. “Indicated”.

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Ummm, do you mean a filename ending with .com (or a hyperlink to such a file)?

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If it’s a file ending in .com do not run it. Old dos programs use com for an extention. It sound like you just got an email virus with a ruse to get you to run a program. Do you have upto date Antivirus software? if so scan the file and see what it says. If not get some and scan the file.

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Filename, Mangetout. My antivirus is up to date, netscape 6, I just didn’t bother to even open it up.

Q

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It is certainly a virus attack - probably Sober C or a variant thereof.

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I see; .com files are executable (they are programs, in this case malicious) - if you didn’t download or open the attachment and if you’re looking at your email in a web browser page (or in a mail client that does not attempt to ‘preview’ any attachments), your machine won’t have been infected.

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You got it, Mangetout:

Scan result: Virus “W32.Sober.C@mm” found.
You can not download this attachment.

Quasi

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BTW, Thanks y’all!

Q

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Off to MPSIMS.

DrMatrix - GQ Moderator

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“Indicated” makes sense… Kinda like “finger pointing”, I guess, if you’re the pointee. Who is the evil-doer? point Quasi! See? I’m indicating you as the main suspect of evil.

point, point

Makes total sense.

point

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Hey - don’t point that! It has a nail in it!!!

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This line takes the cake.

I wonder how many “departments” the FBI would have to have to follow the spam artist’s way of thinking …

For some reason, Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks fits in here somehow.

:smiley:

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Even better

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Jesus, sailor! That’s just plain scary!

Q

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Indicated? How?

I imagine, myself, law enforcement officials pointing a gigantic, Batman-style spotlight at your habitation, using some symbol that indicates that you share files.