security alert from aol

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  1. Rita

    Rita Infrequent Poster

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    Thursday, February 24, 2005


    Caution: FBI E-mails Are Fakes
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning citizens that e-mails purporting to be from the FBI are fakes. The e-mails state that the FBI's "Internet Fraud Complaint Center" has discovered that the recipient is visiting illegal web sites and instructs the recipient to open an attachment to the e-mail. The attachment is a virus. AOL is scanning attachments to your AOL e-mail for known viruses, but you should still be careful with non-AOL mail
     
    Rita, Feb 24, 2005
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    I'm interested to know which virus is in the attachments...
     
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    I dont know which one,just got this alert from aol this morning and it didnt say,I'll see if i can find out though.
     
    Rita, Feb 24, 2005
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    Best method is not to open suspicious e-mails.
     
    nadirah, Feb 25, 2005
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