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  • If it was real they would of send you a letter via the post not an e-mail.
  • tradetime
    tradetime Posts: 3,200 Forumite
    ormus wrote: »
    my first reaction was to reply saying prove it.
    My first reaction is to retun with an attachment containing killdisk, right back at ya. ;)
    Hope for the best.....Plan for the worst!

    "Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse." Unknown
  • Corals
    Corals Posts: 15 Forumite
    Doelani,

    You are a star for posting this message, I was sent last night & when I read it I thought it was spam, especially as they sent it at 3.44am in the morning! I then decided to do a "Google Search on ICS Monitoring Team" & was thankfully brought directly to this thread.

    Many thanks again.
  • Cat695
    Cat695 Posts: 3,647 Forumite
    whats their email......i have an hour to spare adding them to many sites emailing lists
    If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly


    I've only ever been wrong once! and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was right
  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    I can't believe anyone has wasted time on this - it's spam - delete immediately and get on with something more important.
  • withabix
    withabix Posts: 9,508 Forumite
    chilli_dog wrote: »
    My 15 year old would have put something like,

    Yo bruv,

    you has been downloadin' stuff aint yeah?

    U has been well caught and we is gonna smoke ur !!!.

    something along these lines, msn 'chat' is killing grammer skills off!!


    You forgot to use 'innit', 'like', 'yer know' and 'anyways' :rolleyes:
    British Ex-pat in British Columbia!
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Please, everyone that suggested replying to this email, or any other dodgy emails, DON'T! If they get a reply, they'll know they've had a hit, a genuine, active email address, which is very valuable to them, and anyone who wants to buy a list of email addresses off them. Prepare for a lot more spam!
    HTH
  • chilli_dog wrote: »
    My 15 year old would have put something like,

    Yo bruv,

    you has been downloadin' stuff aint yeah?

    U has been well caught and we is gonna smoke ur !!!.

    something along these lines, msn 'chat' is killing grammer skills off!!


    "You gonna get sued for reals"
  • String33 wrote: »
    Had same email today, looked up their IP Address, comes up as Comcast Cable Communications, Inc, based in Georgia, USA.

    They are an Internet Service Provider, also found an interesting Court Case regarding their missuse of collecting IP data and storage of the URL's (websites) their clients visit, which they link to your IP address and subsequently you.

    http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/6th/032012p.pdf

    Not sure how genuine the email is, but have recently downloaded a couple of movies from bittorrents...bit of coinsidence wouldn't you say? Could just be a scare tactic.

    Checked the attached file for virus etc, through Norton but came up clean.

    Will do some more digging and post any updates. I am with o2 broadband, I wonder if Comcast is their provider.
    Thanks for your post. FYI I was sent the ICS Monitoring Team email but I only discovered it in my junk mail folder because it had been intercepted by my service provider (Blueyonder/Virgin Broadband) and forwarded to me with a message from them. It was to inform me that the attachment had contained a Trojan Horse (Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.xgg) which they had removed. Virgin seem to have pretty good anti-virus filters.

    Very interesting what you discovered about the company behind it.

    Cheers again for that.
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