CIA wants to talk to me?!?

“I got this today...
Dear Sir/Madam,

we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.

Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.


Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison



++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505

++++ phone: (703) 482-0623
++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time

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I can't open the file they attached and calling them proved pretty futile although I left my phone number. Anyone else get one of these? I didn't know backpacking sites were illegal...scheesh..”

“It's a virus, don't open the attachment!”

“Phishing email, designed to get you to divulge personal info. Do NOT respond.”

“... or both!”

“Did they ask for a credit card number?
Sounds like a con job.
If the CIA wanted you, they wouldn't have sent an email. They would have some nice guys from the FBI at your door. ;-)”

“We thought so..Norton wouldn't let us open the file....I love Norton...”

“First of all, CIA handles foreign intelligence and has absolutely no jurisdiction for domestic law enforcement. Secondly, they have more pressing issues than whatever web sites you may have logged onto, unless you're logging onto al Qaeda.”

“It's not a legitimate email.

Don't open the attachment.
DELETE IT NOW and run a virus scan.”

“Open it! Open it!”

“Note to self: Do not open any email from mata in the next few days. It will be filled with a virus.”

“Nigal..you are a bad man...LOL...”

“WAIT!

Forward it to Nigal THEN delete it.”

“LOL”

“Note to Stovie..we didn't open it...couldn't open it...I have Norton Anti-virus and Firewalls plus installed live updates before I even looked at it..I'm going to email you all...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!muah-ha-ha-ha-ha....
last edited: 11/21/05 3:25:07 PM”

“The Dept. of Homeland Security called me last week with some personal questions and I was suspicious, but after some conversation I realized it was real. Gotta goto Philadelphia tomorrow for an interview and fingerprints.

Don't trust any email that asks for information unless you are 100% positive of the source.”

“Forward it to both of them. Re title it, "Libbies are such goofballs."”

“see what happens when your friends with prosecutor ;)”

“Heck, mata is so lovable, she's friends with everyone.”

“And with Mata's "background," ya think, "well yeah, maybe the CIA would be after me!"

LOL!!! (come on a trip and hear Mata's entertaining tales for yourself)”

“see what happens when your friends with prosecutor ..eh eh eh...it's all good...

Thanks for the link, bitpusher..looks like that's the evil virus...at least I don't have it...”

“Hush lizs. What happens on the trail, stays on the trail.
Dang woman. ;-)”

“naw, if the CIA ever had an interest in me those days are long gone...now Interpol, that's another story..they have lo-o-o-ong memories, I think...”

“I just received the same e-mail. I thought I only visited 20 illegal sites. Oh well I blew it away anyway.”

“Tomorrow's headline:

CIA catches al Qaeda sleeper cell on message board.”

“I thought it was only porn we were not supose to look at.”

“No PORN! tell me it isn't so!”

“i got an email from dubya...apparently there's an opening on the supreme court...i told em i've never been a judge but he said i didn't make no matter...you think i should apply?
last edited: 11/21/05 3:45:24 PM”

““i got an email from dubya...apparently there's an opening on the supreme court...i told em i've never been a judge but he said i didn't make no matter...you think i should apply?
last edited: 11/21/05 4:45:24 PM”
thriftyhiker

I think the door is locked.

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa

Locked door, ... get it?

I slay myself!”

“I got it this afternoon at 2:07 PM. Since it had an attachment and I did not recognize the sender (Office@cia.gov), I immediately deleted it as any self-respecting CISSP should. I still have it, just in case I want to put it on a test machine to see what it does.”

“soooooo matahari [always wondered about your name...hmmmm] what sort of illegal websites DID you visit, huh????

[btw...a site note: when I was a child I used to think matahari was the coolest chic on TV. not sure anymore if I knew she was a real person]”

“I would guess that the CIA uses their own people to conduct background investigations on prospective members. They are not going to trust other groups to do it correctly. So they could be conducting some other investigation in the states as well.

(ex-CIC member)”

“Consumer Information Center??”

“"when I was a child I used to think matahari was the coolest chic on TV. not sure anymore if I knew she was a real person"...I was out of the states for 18 years. Who was the character on a TV using my name! What sort of TV show was it? Prosecutor suggested the name to me and it felt oh-so-right. I know the original source of the name (Dutch exotic dancer/spy) but had never heard of a character on TV...
last edited: 11/21/05 6:16:15 PM”

“CIC - an Army Group(Counter Intelligence Corps)
Navy definition of Army's CIC: Christ I'm Confused!
last edited: 11/21/05 6:54:45 PM”

“matahari...[this is gemini...don't ask where this BOOOO is coming from..I didn't do it, I swear!!]

I can't remember...all I know it was a very old movie(s) I do remember watching them a lot. I think, but I am not certain there is even a REAL old movie out without sound. I was very little...and yes I knew back then she was an exotic spy.

I don't even remember anymore if it was a german show or an american.

I can't really tell you if it was color or black and white as we only had a black and white tv back then. Not much help huh?

Maybe she was more known in Europe.

oh look what I found:
http://www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz/previousyears/screenings2005/matahari.html

hey if you click at the bottom link you'll find a little part of the german movie version:
http://www.greta-garbo.de/filmbuehne/mata-hari-gretagarbo-illustrierte-filmbuehne.html
last edited: 11/21/05 7:04:31 PM”

“LOL nowslimmer”

“I got a similar mail from departments (at) fbi.gov. Hotmail moved it right to junk. I saw it and laughed.”

“ah more variations on the junk phish and government scams. . . So grateful am I for anti-virus and spam protection.”

“Matahari.....I thought that was some kind of Japanese suicide ritual.

I didn't get the CIA memo...but I did get one from our National (Canada) Lottery company saying I won some money. Hmmmm...how the hell did they get my email when I never wrote or told them? Idiot scammers!!!!”

“This morning I got another from the FBI..it's so nice to know so many care, isn't it? LOL...

Ha! Japanese suicide ritual...that's sepuko where you slash you entrails open with a knife to commit suicide..although many thing that's harikiri, it's not.

Ah Gem..yes, I remember the old, silent movie .long ago about my namesake...caught it on some late night show...somewhere...you had me thinking I might have been a TV cartoon character in a different incarnation...LOL...

By the way, that email proporting to be from the FBI made our local news last night...Bill told me they think it originated from FLORIDA!”

“Yup, it has Nowslimmer written all over it. That boy has too much time on his hands; when he isn't karate chopping people he's invading their computers, lol.”

“I got an from the supposed FBI the other day. I deleted it. Do you really think the FBI would contact someone via email? I wonder but suspect not.”

“From the link to the FBI site in the above article:

These e-mails did not come from the FBI. Recipients of this or similar solicitations should know that the FBI does not engage in the practice of sending unsolicited e-mails to the public in this manner.

FBI memorandum on this”

“Twinkes, only worry if you spot a couple of black choppers flying over your house.”

“My boss got the same email this morning only it said it was from the FBI. She forwarded it to the states attorney general's office.”

“LOL, i'm sure they'll be happy your boss took their computer system down”

“No, they have an address set up to send these types of emails to, so they then can put up warnings for scam and virus emails.”