Alert
Prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
July 24, 2006
ANOTHER FRAUDULENT FBI EMAIL ALERT
The IC3 has received reports concerning another email hoax claiming to be from the FBI.
The new email hoax is similar to the warning posted on the IC3 website on November 22, 2005. The attachment to the email message contains a virus.
This hoax email contains the following text:
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) 283-5817
THIS EMAIL IS A HOAX. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE ATTACHMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS EMAIL. IF YOU RECEIVE THIS EMAIL OR AN EMAIL SIMILAR TO THIS, DELETE THE MESSAGE AND DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT.
If you have received this, or a similar hoax, please file a complaint at www.ic3.gov