intresting spam scam mail

[rika]

from lets say FBi the only thing that the sender doesent know is that FBI doesent have autority in Romania and i only have a Yahoo mail as US adress only cos at the time that i did the mail account it doesent existed the posibility to make yahoo on romania look at attachement its funny

[Bearcat]

H'mmm, I guess that would make you suspicious, wouldn't it?

[BigGuy]

That is funny rika. Now if the e-mail had read "CIA" it would have been more believable, huh?

[leofelix]

This looks like a kind of 419 fraud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud

can you please post the message headers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_header#Message_header ) of that mail (without your e-mail address, of course)?
It will be helpful to find out the ip address of the sender and indentify the scammer.

In order to report spam and scam you may like to read
http://www.spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php/Complainterator

I hope that e-mail didn't contain any attachment (and you didn't run it)
I remember a worm known as Sober spreading during 2005
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sober-Disguises-as-FBI-Notice-to-Spoof-Users-13169.shtml

[Bearcat]

Thanks a lot for the additional info Leo. You are most thorough as usual.

[Raymond]

As a good Christian and a honest man

I bet he's neither one. A scammer asking for only $98? He failed :P

[Ceyfer √]

Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division ...

I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to you?.

NAME: AMAH FRANCIS
ADDRESS: LAGOS NIGERIA?

Oh, not again. Read between the lines. Look, legitimate gov't agencies won't suck that bad. I also have tons of spams like this ...out of my curiosity, I somehow amused and entertained by it. But at the end of the day, they're all deleted for good.

[Bearcat]

But at the end of the day, they're all deleted for good.

That sounds like a good plan and I do the same myself!

[rika]

sorry cant post the message header cos i already cleaned all spam mesages here i only posted the attachement and that was a txt file and i have a licensed internet security that does my scans on everry thing i downlaud it is one that many of u wont aprove but i'm used to it and i think is good enough for me since i never had any problems and i have 1year and 3 months since i installed windows xp on my laptop and no problems of any kind the only thing that it was funny was the threats in mesage that was new usualy they only post adress and they promise huge amounts of money but even with best internet security still the only one that guards youre pc its u

[leofelix]

@ rika
no problem, please do not worry.
The most impostant thing is that you didn't got scammed and infected ; )