William wrote: > I'm in the USA. I have been receiving emails, supposedly from FedEx, > saying that there is a problem with a shipment to me and asking me to > open the attached shipping label, which is a compressed file. My ISP > marks these as spam, but sends them to me, which is consistent with what > I have asked them to do. I suspect this is malware, because I am not > expecting any shipments, and the shipment number they put in the header > draws nothing when I go to the FedEx site to trace the shipment. > > In the past, I have discarded these, or sent them to my ISP who probably > discards them. But the frequency is increasing and I am thinking that > there must be some law enforcement agency that can deal with these > knaves. Our city police have no such office, and apparently are not > equipped to deal with this. > > Does any one know of a place these can be sent that would be interested > in investigating and prosecuting?
The attachment contains malware that infects Windows computers. Have you been marking them as Junk and having them sent to the Junk folder? SeaMonkey should soon learn to do that for you. Also mark the Properties / Retention Policy of the Junk folder to "Delete messages more than [ 3] days old. This makes it maintain itself. That's about all you can do. Your city police won't be interested in prosecuting a hacker in Romania. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
