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Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi
From: Michael Wayne <nanog () wayne47 com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:40:16 -0500
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:02:49AM -0500, Glenn McGurrin via NANOG wrote:
I had a bit of an odd one this morning, I received two emails through contacts listed in whois subject: "Urgent: Threat actor in systems" from "eims () ic fbi gov". I was all set to ignore them as an odd bit of spam
Private reply. Having had several interactions with the FBI (and a few other TLA), they have confirmed that they never use email for critical communications like these. So you can relax if you get email from the IRS, FBI or most any other government agency. As federal agencies, they use the US Mail. The SBA is an exception; they do use email to request and communicate information.
Current thread:
- strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Glenn McGurrin via NANOG (Nov 15)
- Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Bill Woodcock (Nov 15)
- Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Christopher Morrow (Nov 15)
- Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Richard (Nov 15)
- Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Jay Hennigan (Nov 15)
- Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Sander Steffann (Nov 15)
- Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Glenn McGurrin via NANOG (Nov 16)
- Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi Michael Wayne (Nov 16)