On 2/25/2015 10:50 AM, 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. >
Indeed, there is one: the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at <http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx>. This is a joint operation of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. The latter seems to be a consortium of state and local law enforcement agencies. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
