Recvd this hoax email:

(i changed the IP)

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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 000.000.000.000 . 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: #6374, 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) 324-300X


I checked it out and it is a fake:
http://www.fbi.gov/fbiemail.htm

FYI incase you get this and you freak out and start deleting your MP3's. :D BTW--the misspellings were a big clue that this was bull!

lol.. most people would probably go crazy and like destroy their hd after reading that lol

Personally I would question any legal authority that served warning to people being investigated via email. Not to mention that law enforcement rarely tips it's hand to someone they're investigating.

Okay but here's the kicker, if you goto the FBI link provided in this post and follow their instructions to report the hoax email, they may automatically create a folder on you (if one doesn't already exist) just because you've contacted them. At-least that's what I've been told, that anyone who calls or writes the FBI automatically has a folder created on them.

True or not? I don't know for sure but it sounds like the kind of thing a federal agency would do.

~Bobbi Sue

Even just looking at that, there is a lcak of professionalism. there is nothing in that email that would even make me consider "Destroying" my hard drive.

Thats if i even opened it. More than likely I would just Filter it to the trash along with the viagra and real estate spam.

Originally posted by Roberta
Personally I would question any legal authority that served warning to people being investigated via email. Not to mention that law enforcement rarely tips it's hand to someone they're investigating.

Okay but here's the kicker, if you goto the FBI link provided in this post and follow their instructions to report the hoax email, they may automatically create a folder on you (if one doesn't already exist) just because you've contacted them. At-least that's what I've been told, that anyone who calls or writes the FBI automatically has a folder created on them.

True or not? I don't know for sure but it sounds like the kind of thing a federal agency would do.

~Bobbi Sue That used to be the norm back in the J. Edgar Hoover days and who knows maybe they still do but it would make sense. If you report something to them they do need to open a case file on it.

Originally posted by MikeM
Even just looking at that, there is a lcak of professionalism. there is nothing in that email that would even make me consider "Destroying" my hard drive.

Thats if i even opened it. More than likely I would just Filter it to the trash along with the viagra and real estate spam. It's like the Nigerian letter scams most people take one look at it and know it's garbage yet others fall for that scam over and over. I'm sure someone out there received that "FBI" email freaked out and began deleting files.