Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:40:08 -0500, "David H. Durgee" <[email protected]>
wrote:
EE wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
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.
An antifraud organization might be interested in shutting the hackers
down. That would at least make it more difficult for them for awhile.
Surely there is some kind of antifraud organization in the US.
Have you forwarded a copy to FedEx, given that they are the ones that
the hacker's are pretending to be? I would imagine they would be
interested in having them shut down.
Dave
Fed Ex will not act on it. Forwarding it to them may get you in
trouble for attempting to phish them. No, you just have to find out
who's hosting the file and see if you can get the hosting company to
remove it. These things are always on hacked servers. Our eastern
European friends are so so busy.
- Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]
Per FedEx web site:
If you have received a fraudulent e-mail that claims to be from FedEx,
you can report it by forwarding it to [email protected].
Dave
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