e- mails and zip files

[DelawareDave]

FBI Warns of E-Mail About Surveillance 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert Monday about a scam involving unsolicited e-mails, purportedly sent by the FBI, that tell computer users that their Internet surfing is being monitored by the agency.
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The users are told they have visited illegal Web sites and are instructed to open an attachment to answer questions.
The FBI did not send these e-mails and does not send any other unsolicited e-mails to the public, an agency statement said. As many harmful computer viruses are located in e-mail attachments, the FBI said it strongly encourages computer users not to open attachments from unknown recipients.
The FBI is investigating the scam. Recipients of these e-mails are asked to report them by visiting the Internet Crime Complaint Center at http://www.ic3.gov.
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On the Net:
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: http://www.ic3.gov
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/...ot/e_mail_scam

[FreshTracks]

From snopes:
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Sober.X (aka 'Illegal Websites')
Virus: Sober.X (aka "Illegal Websites")
Status: Real.
Examples: [Collected on the Internet, 2005]
Dear Sir/Madam,
we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison
++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505
++++ phone: (703) 482-0623
++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time
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Dear Sir/Madam,
we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison
*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220
*** Washington, DC 20535
Origins: Like the earlier Sober.C mass-mailing worm which hit in 2003, this latest version (Sober.X) employs phony warning messages supposedly sent by law enforcement agencies which claim to be tracking illegal Internet activity. In this case, the messages purport to come from a "Steve Allison," an investigator with either the FBI or the CIA, and state that the recipient has visited "more than 30 illegal Websites," presenting him with a "list of questions" he must answer. The whole thing is, of course, a fiction inteded to lure the reader into opening the attached .ZIP file so that the worm can spread to his PC.
Sober.X e-mails are sent out with a variety of subject lines:
hi, ive a new mail address
Mail delivery failed
Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie
Registration Confirmation
smtp mail failed
You visit illegal websites
Your IP was logged
Your Password
Only Microsoft Windows platforms are vulnerable to Sober.X.
Symantec offers removal instructions and updated virus definitions to help combat Sober.X.

[lucky]

refresh again - if i unzip - a worm comes out ??? :cry:

[riverracerx]

Keep your worm zipped up and you won't get in trouble!