Ok so normally I click "send/recieve" and watch as dozens of spam and junk mail pour into there boxes. Alot of the times Norton will pick one out as warn me about an attachment being a virus. No biggie, just part of doing biz online.
But today I got a warning from Norton about an attachment to an email, when I looked at the email it caught my eye because the adress is came from was
[email protected]
The message read:
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
++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505
++++ phone: (703) 482-0623
++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time
The attachment is a .txt (247B) that norton deleted.
The email address it came to was "mailbox@******" to an email addy attached to a dummy URL that we don't use.
Now I want to hear from people. Is this for real? Is this really from the CIA or is this just a creative way for someone to give out a virus?
I would like to hear thoughts, opinions, and experiences please.
Thanks