I received this email, along with a zip file!
"Notice to Appear,
Hereby you are notified that you have been scheduled to appear for your hearing that
will take place in the court of Washington in January 15, 2014 at 09:00 am.
Please bring all documents and witnesses relating to this case with you to Court on your hearing date.
The copy of the court notice is attached to this letter.
Please, read it thoroughly.
Note: If you do not attend the hearing the judge may hear the case in your absence.
Yours truly,
Evie Mason
Clerk to the Court."
I noted that the return email address is <ticket_support.7@jonesday.com
LOL< like I'm really going to upzip that file 🙂
HAs anyone else received this?
Dtp
Is there a safe way to check a zip file? does anyone want to open it? LOL
I have not heard of that one but heard of one similar.
You get emailed on a "failure to appear" with a fine and a phone number to call to clear it up. Big scam right there.
If no one else has heard of this one, be aware that courts (at least in the US) do not email people stuff especially warrants. Warrants are hand delivered by the county Sheriff at the Judge's order. Some counties have marshals that do that but those are not the federal US Marshal service folks.
I just got notice to also appear. Bummer, now I have to adjust my schedule:-D
put it on an old computer and see it become a brick
i put together an old Win98 machine for a Jamaican kid out of scrap parts. he had a DVD of MP3s that would brick it in 20 minutes.
> Is there a safe way to check a zip file? does anyone want to open it? LOL
NO WAY I WANT TO OPEN THAT! However, the safe way to check requires a computer with nothing on it but the operating system. Add one of several programs that will image the computer to a removable drive. Best of these programs will create a recovery CD and later compare secure image and computer.
Image (BACKUP) the computer to the removable drive. Physically disconnect the computer from all network or internet access. Remove the backup drive then download the zip file to a thumb drive. Plug the thumb drive into the stand alone computer and open the file. After examining the file compare image and original computer. If any alteration is detected format all drives and storage devices on the computer. Reboot from Operating system or Recovery CD then restore image.
Process may take a few hours to overnight. Have been told the antivirus companies have this down to a science. Also use additional software to create an analysis of any instructions in the unzipped file.
Don't double click on the zip in the email. Instead, right click it and save the file to the desktop or some folder. Then use your virus protection to scan that file (if it didn't already in saving it).
Also, somewhere in going through my settings I saw an option to not use the internal file type to override the extension. I can't remember where it was, unfortunately.
That's what a lot of the malware does - calls it a zip file, doc, or some other innocuous extension but internally it is coded to be an exe that does bad things, and if you have the setting that allows the override, it will be executed when you try to open the zip or doc.
Just had a scary thought! [sarcasm]Wonder if they got your email address from your Target account information?[/sarcasm]
Haha, I don't shop at Target. Out here on this sandbar they don't exist.
It's not worth it to even want to know what's in the ZIP, its a scam. I never open emails from unknown addresses.
Could be that scam that
locks your computer unless you pay up within a few hours.....
RADU
ME THREE!
HE HE, JUST WAIT'LL THEY GET OUR BILL FOR "PROFESSIONAL" APPEARANCE, ER TESTIMONY!
I deleted that sucker asap.
Just got mine from:
Yours truly,
Sophie Tailor
Clerk to the Court.
I just got another one. Much more abrupt and urgent. I guess I should not have deleted the first one, LOL
got three or four of them in the last day, wonder if they mined our e-mail from beerleg?
"got three or four of them in the last day, wonder if they mined our e-mail from beerleg?"
Doubt it. At least there are no third party trackers on this site. The only other constant is a "county clerk's" office. If you're a registered you're likely spending time dealing with county clerks.
Maybe someone's email account got hacked. Seems like LinkedIn sends a lot of spurious requests.
My email is registered with BL/SC and have not received any of those examples.
The sp*m I get is mostly on a much older email account and is more often just selling something, with some "couldn't deliver your package", and the occasional "help me get $millions out of some country."
Edit: Well, I spoke too soon. I just got the court one from "Ruby Mason". It was on the older account that I've never used for SurveyorConnect.
I carefully extracted the contents of the zip and found one executable. My virus checker didn't find anything wrong with it, but I'm not brave enough to execute it.
And another one. This time the clerk is "Alena Smith"
I've been getting emails with ZIP files supposedly dealing with my "recent order from Amazon.com"
Pretty sure they are not genuine since I have not ordered anything from amazon.
> I've been getting emails with ZIP files supposedly dealing with my "recent order from Amazon.com"
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> Pretty sure they are not genuine since I have not ordered anything from amazon.
Me too. I kept thinking "I know I ordered something for Wendell, but it wasn't from Amazon and it already showed up!"
So, I have been entering them Amazon scammers into the http://flakelist.org database. 😀
