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Anyone ever get SPAM FBI Gov. emails?

Discussion in 'Computers & Technology Forum' started by Rachel, Nov 21, 2005.

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  1. Rachel

    Rachel New Member

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    Today I've gotten several fake mail delivery failures and registrations and some from a fake FBI spam address. The FBI gov. ones say I have visited illegal sites. lol Has anyone ever gotten those kind? All of a sudden today I have gotten all these. Around 14 or so. This is not usual for me to get so much at once.
    Is there a way to find out where they came from?

    Here are the spam gov. addresses.

    office@fbi.gov
    Department@fbi.gov
     
    #1 Rachel, Nov 21, 2005
  2. Trotter

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    Odds are someone who has your email address in their address book has gotten a computer virus. The delivery failures are one way it tries to reach other computers.

    In Christ,
    Trotter
     
    #2 Trotter, Nov 21, 2005
  3. Ed Edwards

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    #3 Ed Edwards, Nov 21, 2005
  4. Rachel

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    Thank you Ed! Wow, is that weird or what?? I posted mine then that other fella posted that. Neat! [​IMG]
     
    #4 Rachel, Nov 22, 2005
  5. Rachel

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    Trotter, thank you too! [​IMG]
     
    #5 Rachel, Nov 22, 2005
  6. Trotter

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    Found this:
    http://tinyurl.com/72tkb

    In Christ,
    Trotter
     
    #6 Trotter, Nov 22, 2005
  7. exscentric

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    Got one of the fbi ones amongest my 60 or so a day other junkers today. First time for me. I usually get all the junk. I am on so many junkers lists I get five and six copies of some items :eek:
     
    #7 exscentric, Nov 22, 2005
  8. Johnv

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    I get them every now and then. But they are flagged to go into my junk mail folder, which automatically gets emptied every few days.
     
    #8 Johnv, Nov 22, 2005
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    Just the last few days I've gotten scads of these varmits.

    Up until a week or so ago, I'd get probably 5-10 spams/day; but at this AM checking I had some 25, and have gotten about 12-15 more thru the day.

    I don't understand the sudden volume increase.

    Those that show undelivered mail, have always shown it was "not delivered" to some address that I never heard of. That's when I simply told my server to treat them as spam!
     
    #9 just-want-peace, Nov 22, 2005
  10. Trotter

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    Update:

    Turns out this is a variation of the sober worm virus. Very nasty.

    Do not open the accompanying file, or you just added to the problem.

    In Christ,
    Trotter
     
    #10 Trotter, Nov 22, 2005
  11. exscentric

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    Actually I am now getting foreign language spam :) not sure what they hope to accomplish with that since I can't speak English yet much less other languages [​IMG]
     
    #11 exscentric, Nov 22, 2005
  12. kubel

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    Yep. Just got one. Came through my ISP email address (I only gave that to 3 people: 1 friend, 1 missionary, and 1 forum).
     
    #12 kubel, Nov 23, 2005
  13. NaasPreacher (C4K)

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    I am hearing about this, but either gmail is recognising it and getting rid of it before I see it, or I have just been fortunate.
     
    #13 NaasPreacher (C4K), Nov 23, 2005
  14. exscentric

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    Hey, wouldn't want you to feel left out, want me to forward a couple to you [​IMG]
     
    #14 exscentric, Nov 23, 2005
  15. NaasPreacher (C4K)

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    No thanks [​IMG] .

    I might not even see them, google does a pretty good job of catching the bad ones.
     
    #15 NaasPreacher (C4K), Nov 23, 2005
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