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From: FBI@FBI.gov
To: E-SMTP@lycos.com
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Subject: You visit illegal websites
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:52:51 UTC

Dear Sir/Madam,

we have logged your IP-address on more than 40 illegal Websites.

Important: Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
M. John Stellford

++-++ Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
++-++ 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 2130
++-++ Washington, DC 20535
++-++ (202) 324-3000

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― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

HOAX!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

He knows you read FReaky Trigger! Run! Hide!

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

what are the questions? ;)

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

"Do you like Xanadu?"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

"how many bras do you own?"

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

"What is the most unaccept..." hang on the phone's ringing..

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh, god. We've been inundated with these at work. It's the Sober virus.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Sober virus? Check all XstraightedgersX!

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

No, I think it may be real:

From: FBI@FBI.gov
To: E-SMTP@lycos.com

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

It isn't real, trust me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Check this:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/fbi.asp

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas, I was kidding. Look at the "From" address. And the "To" address isn't even me.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

can't you do an email trace (or whatever you call it?)? i think my website provider lets me do this. i actually just did this and it said there was an error?!?

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Look at the "From" address. And the "To" address isn't even me.

Oh, whoever wrote the address-grabbing part of the virus apparently can't code for shit, because (for one thing) half the time it seems to glue the domain part of Person A's address onto the user part of Person B's.

Somehow I doubt that they care, though - even with about 2% of the emails it sends out having valid destinations, there are still enough dumb people in the world for it to have spread like wildfire.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I just thought it was funny - i.e. a very lame attempt at spreading a virus...

Important: Please answer our questions!

But as caitlin says, there are enough ignorant people to spread it ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

The number of insipid phone calls this has generated in the last few days is really unconscionable considering America once put a man on the fucking moon and invented the atom bomb.

PLEASE REFER TO THIS PRESS RELEASE TKS BYE

Arrrrrrrgh

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

If you're in trouble with the FBI, I don't think they just shoot off an idle email in your general direction :)

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

From: FBI@FBI.gov
To: E-SMTP@lycos.com
CC:
Subject: You have killed over 60,000 people you little scamp!
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:52:51 UTC

Dear Sir/Madam,

It has come to our attention that you've recently killed 60,000 people with a mixture of rocket propelled grenades and dirty needles. Naughty little human! Slap on the wrist!

If you're not busy on Saturday pop into our offices for a chinnywag and we'll see if we can't all sort all this horrible mess out. I expect it'll just blow over if we don't get too worked up about it.

Important: Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
M. John Stellford

++-++ Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
++-++ 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 2130
++-++ Washington, DC 20535
++-++ (202) 324-3000

― Webb Friendly (Webb Friendly), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

28. It's not all bad. Some of these people are actually intelligent and use it to fuck with other coworkers here. For example, I work with a man named Scott, I believe he's some type of lawyer but really I don't know what any of these people do. He's very funny though and is quite clever with the internet (clever enough that he might one day read this, unlike anyone else I work with--hi Scott!).

In the aftermath of 9/11, my coworker Chuck became extraordinarily paranoid, constantly forwarding around all sorts of conspiracy articles and weird news stories to the entire office, and wouldn't shut up about them when you spoke to him. One day he receives an email from "the CIA" (I have seen the email, it's quite an impressive fake) informing him that they are watching him closely and he needs to knock it off with his conspiracy propeganda.

Chuck predictably freaks out. But that's not all. He proceeds to take the email and give it to several of the partners in the company during a huge meeting. One of the partners writes on a pad of paper, "THAT'S REALLY FROM SCOTT" and starts passing it around. They all kept their cool and acted suitably horrified by this email, sympathizing with Chuck in his predicament of being "watched".

To this day, no one has told Chuck that that email wasn't really from the CIA.
-- Allyzay (akearne... ), November 20th, 2003.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

The thread title sounds like an Anal Cunt song.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

The number of insipid phone calls this has generated in the last few days is really unconscionable considering America once put a man on the fucking moon and invented the atom bomb.

hahaha yeah esp. since both of those things were achieved without having anything near the computing power (ugh, what a horrible phrase) we have today.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

lol @ sugarpants

― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

The thread title sounds like an Anal Cunt song.
I keep reading it as that angsty kid from King of the Hill. "You got fired." "Your wife left you." "You visit illegal websites."

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

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