New virus warning

[GCC Consulting]

Below is a copy of an e-mail I received from may daughter from her IT department

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting  


 information security 
  April 8, 2004 

Email Virus Alert
Attention: FDIC Email Scam
 

Several email users have received emails from FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation) with a subject line of "fraud report". The email claims that the
your bank account has been temporarily closed because of fraudulent activity.
The email directs you to review the contents of an attached file called
"www.fdic.com.fraud.security.pif.zip" for details related to the fraudulent
activity, as well as for information on how to contact the FDIC. The email is
not true. This email was not sent by the FDIC and is likely a deceptive attempt
to either obtain personal information from you or implant a computer virus on
your computer.

 

As a result of this potential email virus, IT&S has now blocked the related
file,  www.fdic.com.fraud.security.pif.zip, from entering our network. However,
if you have already received one of these emails, please delete the email and do
not under any circumstances open the password protected zip file. 

 

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

 

 

Questions

 

To find out more about this scam, please visit
http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/SpecialAlert/2004/sa3004.html.

 

If you have questions, please email the Information Security mailbox or call the
Security Help Desk at 1-800-265-8422, options 5, 1.

 

If you are uncertain whether you received this email, please reference the
sample below.  

 

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From: Spoofed from address - Brian Spencer [mailto:security at fdic.com]

Subject: Fraud report - OR - **Spam** fraud report
 

Message:

Dear Sir!

 

We are sorry to report that your bank account has been

temporarily closed cause of explicit fraud activity. We are about  

to report to the police about this incident and they.ll carefully  

investigate this matter. If you'll be found guilty, your can be  

charged up to $57,183. 

You can find all the details about this incident in the attached 

file and if you still have any questions until the police start 

investigation, please contact us as soon as possible. Sir, fraud 

activity is prohibited by the US legislation and you must note down 

that from now on your every step is being carefully traced down.

So if you don't want any other incidents to take place, wait for 

the end of this investigation or contact us. You can find our email 

and phone number in the attached file(password - MarH3Jl4).

 

Faithfully yours, Brian Spencer (Chief Manager)