Anyone else get one of these emails

[Craig Tucker]

Written in pigeon English which is the first give away (do you think that should say indicted rather than indicated ), the ip address quoted is from Taiwan so obviously is not my ip address (explains the pigeon English), and why would the FBI send a warning like this to a UK user. Oh well, I bet its put the willies up a few people though.

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 61.229.169.163 . 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: #35900, 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

[curryman]

no , i ain't had it. but it sure gives me an idea to wind up one of my mates in work if i could only figure out how to send it to him without him knowing it was me

[Craig Tucker]

How computer savy is he, because you can easily change the displayed user name for the email account. If he opens the message up fully though it will still show the email address. Although I think you can change what email address is displayed also, don't know how though.

[curryman]

Oh, I think i can get away with changing display name, atleast it'll shit him up for a few minutes
Am i right in thinking i just create a new account in outlook express with a false name, yeh?

[curryman]

Jesus, i didn't even know you could see my email.
mod' thing eh?

[Craig Tucker]

Yes, we are all powerfull you know

[curryman]

[Solarjetman]

The real kicker is that the FBI has no jurisdiction over in England, at least not with cooperation with the British government!!!

Not to mention even if it WAS possible to get all your computer files so easily, that is illegal search and seizure.

[Craig Tucker]

Am i right in thinking i just create a new account in outlook express with a false name, yeh?

Much simpler than that. In outlook click on tools then accounts. Select your account and click on properties. Then under user information change the name. Just remember to change it back when you have finished with your high jinx

[pacmania_2001]

I use a program called Hidden Sender for things like this. It allows you to falsify the sender address and the reply to address.

I got one of them emails, it was such a bad fake that anyone would think a child was responsible for it. Hotmail's junk mail filter picked it up and trashed it so I can't get to the attachment. What was it, a virus?

[Craig Tucker]

Yes NAV automatically quarantined the attachment which had the W32.sober.C@mm virus.

This was contained in the so called reference code referred to in the text.

[curryman]

Much simpler than that. In outlook click on tools then accounts. Select your account and click on properties. Then under user information change the name. Just remember to change it back when you have finished with your high jinx

doh! I feel so stupid sometimes - looking too hard i suppose

I use a program called Hidden Sender for things like this. It allows you to falsify the sender address and the reply to address

oooohhh!, I'm getting all excited now - he's gonna crap himself

[curryman]

Pacmania,
Is that program free/trialware,
just done a quick search for it and got no real results.
any idea where i can get hold of it?

[Craig Tucker]

http://www.flashfindmail.net/hiddensender/?ffmcom

[curryman]

Thank you Mr Tucker,
Yuo must have a better search engine than me eh!

[Craig Tucker]

Just entered hidden sender into google and it was the first hit.

[pacmania_2001]

It's also useful for use in flooding spammer's inboxes. I might do it now actually to that email address on the email.

[curryman]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=program+called+hidden+sender
weird, check my results with google

[curryman]

sorry craig just done another search without program called and got it,
my apologies

[pacmania_2001]

Well the email address a_supprimer_marielou_194@libero.it just got 1749 emails telling them they should learn english and some computer skills before they try and fool people with their crap.

[curryman]

send them again i say

[pacmania_2001]

One of my favourite tricks to do to a friend is send them thousands of emails each with an attachment of about 100kb. Floods their email and stops real email coming in.

[Conquest10]

One of my favourite tricks to do to a friend is send them thousands of emails each with an attachment of about 100kb. Floods their email and stops real email coming in.

I got to try that someday.

[curryman]

One of my favourite tricks to do to a friend is send them thousands of emails each with an attachment of about 100kb. Floods their email and stops real email coming in

yep, sounds fun - my mates on dialup(56k) so it will really do his head in, but first i think i will try the fbi warning

[bugster]

One of my favourite tricks to do to a friend is send them thousands of emails each with an attachment of about 100kb. Floods their email and stops real email coming in.

Thats a real friendly kind of thing to do

I got one of them crap e-mails too. Virus scanner stripped the virus attachment so no probs.

[g_shocker182]

http://www.flashfindmail.net/hiddensender/?ffmcom

Reading that just enrages me. .THey need to bring back cruel and unusual punishment for those people who developed that software.

[curryman]

Reading that just enrages me. .THey need to bring back cruel and unusual punishment for those people who developed that software

gather you got stung then

[The village idiot]

http://www.flashfindmail.net/hiddensender/?ffmcom

Reading that just enrages me. .THey need to bring back cruel and unusual punishment for those people who developed that software.

Yeah, it is kind of sickening... but then we wouldn't have tools to fight back either.

Lots of mail bombers if you look around... HTTP proxies, SOCKS proxies, SNMP/POP3 proxies, it's all available if you look hard enough.