Internet users are being warned of an in-the-wild worm which is pretending to be an email from an FBI or CIA investigator.
The new version of the Sober worm arrives as an email attachment, with the following message body:
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) 324-30000
It's easy to tell this is a fake email. The tip off isn't the part about "illegal Websites". (What is an illegal Website?) It's not the part about tracking my IP. (Google knows more about where I go and what I do online than I believe the government ever could.) It's the "!" in "Please answer our questions!". Agents just aren't that excitable.
Posted by marybeth at November 23, 2005 04:29 AM Internet