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Thread: FBI......gotta be a hoax?

  1. #1
    Mandelon
    This came today, along with an attachement. I didn't open it. I also got two Wells Fargo scams, two B of A scams and a fake Paypal email... Whole lot of "phishing" goin on 'round here.
    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
    *** phone: (202) 324-3000

  2. #2
    Ziggy
    I can only laugh at all those now-a-days...especially for accounts that I don't and never had...update your info, LOL-yeah right.

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    ECeptor
    If the Feds want something from you they are going talk to you in person...not send an email.
    But, just in case I'm wrong you should reply to that email with your SSN#, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, date-of-birth, DL#, etc.

  4. #4
    cxr133
    definitely a scam...
    it was on yahoo on everything...
    now send me 10 dollars and in 30 days you can be a millionaire

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    Excessive Force
    This came today, along with an attachement. I didn't open it. I also got two Wells Fargo scams, two B of A scams and a fake Paypal email... Whole lot of "phishing" goin on 'round here.
    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
    *** phone: (202) 324-3000
    i got something similar but it was from the CIA. didnt bother to even open it. suspicious, it had to do with ip adresses too.

  6. #6
    Cole Sanger
    My company sent a notice today about this very thing. It is a VIRUS. Delete it.

  7. #7
    rvrtoy
    got the same one 3 times today.... I must be busy...LOL

  8. #8
    spectratoad
    Can't imagine an FBI agent closing with, "Yours Faithfully".

  9. #9
    H20 Toie
    i got the same thing

  10. #10
    marty722
    I work for a IT dept in a big company and we had the same thing at our place. Our resources says it's a hoax.....

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