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Email from the CIA
« on: November 28, 2005, 01:00:24 PM »
Hi All,

According to the CIA Office of Public Affairs (703) 482-0623 (I called The phone number)
If you received an email from Steven Allison in reference to:
Your IP-Address being monitored, Delete the email. The email I receive and an attachment.

NO I did not open it.
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2005, 01:56:16 PM »
Yes, we've recived the same stuff at my work.  Big virus.  don't touch it :)
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2005, 09:08:33 AM »
if it has an attachment, and it clocks in at about 75KB, yeah... it's that virus....

I got close ONCE.  then I looked and went, "yeah, that's a virus.
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2005, 09:35:46 AM »
Heh!  A bunch of peeps at our office got that one.  One panicked and called my boss out of a meeting to figure out why the CIA was after her.

Linda
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2005, 09:44:07 AM »
That's real funny considering the whole office has the same IP address.
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2005, 06:47:46 PM »
Yeah if its from someone I don't know then I instantly delete it.
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2005, 07:01:38 PM »
REalistically, the clue is that if they were really monitoring your IP address, they would not send an email (how would they get the email address in use?). They would send a legal letter to you via the post. Or more likely, they would cut you off if needed, but they certainly wouldn't alert you ahead of time. Just imagine how many of the criminals caught would have vanished if they were alerted ahead of time that they were being monitored.
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2005, 09:58:52 AM »
The thing that continually amazes me is how many people are duped by these kinds of things.  Viruses and virus writers would go the way of the dodo if they didn't get the recognition that comes from all the people that do get hammerd.
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2005, 11:13:40 AM »
It's along the lines of if they email a million people, and one of them opens the letter, then their work is done. It's the same deal with Spam mailings, essentially... Just email the advertisement / virus / spybot to a million people or so, and one of them is *BOUND* to be the villiage idiot.
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Re: Email from the CIA
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2005, 11:18:44 AM »
Or just a smart person who's just beginning with computers and hasn't been told yet.  There's thousands every day just getting online for the first time, young and old.  I think those are the people that the clever cover letter work on best.
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