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"There's no magic formula that says A plus C equals X" - Terry Venables (source:Colemanballs, Private Eye)

Your IP was logged: A quick route to jail

23rd November 2005 by Simon

Want a tip on one easy way to put yourself to the top of the Phishing/Virus most wanted? Fancy having your door kicked down in the middle of the night? Possibly tomorrow night?

Send out your mails claiming to be the CIA.

Wait for the knock boys, wait for the knock.

From: Office@cia.gov
Date: Nov 22, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: SPAM-LOW: Your IP was logged

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

ATTACHMENT_BLOCKING_question_list_zip.TXT
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It’s clear that this is a variant to a similar message of a couple of days ago proporting to be the FBI. Which is very clever - getting both the FBI and the CIA after you.

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