I got this spam today:
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:30:48 +0300
From: "support"
To: ziggy@mystandard.address
Subject: You are suspected of plunder 2100 $ from account Webmoney!
Reply-To: "support"
Organization: support
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
You are suspected of plunder 2100 $ from account Webmoney! It is necessary for you to contact employee FBI USA who has affairs with representation Webmoney in USA. We have the decision of a problem and further the decision of a problem in regional court. The complaint has acted from ID 828245830532. The full
information on http://www.fbi-policy.com/webmoney.htm.
Hm. I wonder if the term 'FBI USA' (as used here[*]) constitutes a fradulent misrepresentation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In any case, the domain was created yesterday, which makes 'FBI USA' look less and less like
Fox Mulder's erstwhile employer:
[ziggy@duvel ~]$ whois fbi-policy.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
Domain Name: FBI-POLICY.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Name Server: NS1.BIZLAND.COM
Name Server: NS2.BIZLAND.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 27-jan-2004
Creation Date: 27-jan-2004
Expiration Date: 27-jan-2005
*: I used to spend Sunday Brunch at FBI, the Fairmount Bagel Institute. While their name was cute, they never purported to be an arm of the US Government, a law enforcement agency, or anything other than a restaurant.
Not spam
Matts on 2004-01-28T20:56:19
It's a virus. Check out that link in lwp-request.
404
Mr. Muskrat on 2004-01-28T22:43:40
It's now 404.
Re: If greed doesn't work, try fear!
jdporter on 2004-02-09T18:03:56
Yeah, or
FBI Records.
