By Online Staff
February 16, 2004
An email with the subject line "Police Investigation" has been received by a large number of people overnight and attempts to lure users to a website which installs a keylogger on the user's PC, Canberra-based sysadmin Daniel McNamara says.
McNamara has investigated a number of such scams in the past and brought them to the notice of this newspaper.
The text of the email is:
Hello...
It has come to my attention that you are being under the police investigation. Is that true? Have you really commited such crimes?
Please read the following article located at: http://federalpolice.com:article872@1075686747
or at: http://0100.035.0255.0133
Sincerely, Your old friend
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/16/1076779874341.html
February 16, 2004
COMPUTER criminals are using emails claiming to be from federal police to access the files of home internet users, the Australian High Tech Crime Centre warned today.
The centre's acting director, Nigel Phair, said false emails claiming to be from federal police were being sent to the public. The email asks if the receiver is aware they are being investigated by police.
It asks "is that true?" and then "have you really committed such crimes?" before encouraging people to click on two links for further details.
Once the user clicks on those links, their keystrokes may be traced, enabling the sender of the email to record information such as online bank passwords.
Mr Phair said it was the first time the AHTCC had seen such an email claiming to be from a law enforcement agency.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8702009%255E1702,00.html

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