Re: US DOJ victim letter

[Michael J McCafferty <mike () m5computersecurity com>]

We've been getting them too. I haven't event thought to follow up. DOJ
won't email you with a do not reply.


On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 12:59 -0800, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> We have received three emails from the US Department of Justice Victim
> Notification System to our ARIN POC address advising us that we may be
> the victim of a crime.  Headers look legit.
>
> We have been frustrated in trying to follow the rabbit hole to get any
> useful information.  we've jumped through hoops to get passwords that
> don't work and attempted to navigate a voice-mail system that resembles
> the "twisty maze of passages all different" from an old text adventure
> game.
>
> This *seems* to be legit, and I would think that the end result is
> likely to be a list of IP addresses associated with infected hosts.
>
> Has anyone else received the email?  Is it legit?  If so has anyone
> successfully navigated the maze, and if so how?  Is it worth it?
>
> (And why don't they just send the list of infected IPs to the ARIN
> contact in the first place?)
>
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