warning? real or not?

[plyrs99]

i just received this warning from supposedly an internet monitoring service, the ICS monitoring team.

this is what i was emailed...

"Your internet access is going to get suspended

The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.

We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were originating from

You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.

Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team"

i personally think it is just more spam, as a professional company would not have so many errors in it's message. i also find it funny they state first they are going to suspend my internet access, but at the end, they say if i keep it up, they will then do it. i will not open the zip file attached with my supposed records of downloading over the last 6 months, because more than likely, this is a hoax. i would also believe a letter of this sort would come through my ISP provider, through a well written letter, email and sent by mail.

i also do not think they would readily admit to wiretapping as freely as they have in that letter to me. anyone else receive something like this?

Plyrs99

 

[y2kmark]

More likely ...

i will not open the zip file attached with my supposed records of downloading over the last 6 months, because more than likely, this is a hoax. Plyrs99

Some kind of virus. I wouldn't open attachments either!

 

[basketcase]

...
The Internet Service Provider Consorcium ...

This ConsorTium sound really scary and legit to me.

 

[6969696969]

uh - not real for many many obvious reasons.... I've had spyware on your computer since you got it and know you only download public domain stuff, so you're good

 

[Tarkus]

"Your internet access is going to get suspended

The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.

You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.

Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team"i just received this warning from supposedly an internet monitoring service, the ICS monitoring team.

First of all didn't you do a search on Internet Service Provider Consorcium? I presume that you meant Consortium or did they actually type Consorcium? There is no such organization?

Second what wiretapping on 'our networks'? Any efforts to conduct audits on IP traffic happens at the ISP level not over the network.

What kind of file was the attachment?

 

[plyrs99]

tarkus, i did do a google search on the ICS monitoring team, and nothing. i have noted the spelling errors, and lack of professionalism you would expect from a real legal letter. i also stated in my post, it was a zip file.

Plyrs99

 

[Tarkus]

tarkus, i did do a google search on the ICS monitoring team, and nothing. i have noted the spelling errors, and lack of professionalism you would expect from a real legal letter. i also stated in my post, it was a zip file.

Plyrs99

Okay so they sent you a zip file. In other words they sent you a file that would require you to have a proprietary program, (Winzip or WinRar), to open their file? They would have sent you a flat text file.

You didn't open it did you? Programs can self execute on extraction.

 

[emacs]

i just received this warning from supposedly an internet monitoring service, the ICS monitoring team ...

there's no need to worry. delete the message and move on.

 

[alexmst]

there's no need to worry. delete the message and move on.

Yes.

I get so many messages every day...everything from earn millions from Africa by helping bankers steal money from old accounts to meet hot women in Mexico who want nothing more than to pleasure you. Delete, delete, delete

 

[TERBITIS]

Too Much Spam

Am getting 60-100 SPAM messages per day - will teach me to publish my email id on two websites I have business relationships with.

Call me if you need: cheap Rolex or ED drugs or new girlfriend or great jobs or to help out unfortunates that just need another $1000 to save someone in a third/fourth world country or more SPAM.

Thinking of changing my email id with my provider - just a pain.

 

[Highroller]

Have the same email title in my inbox just going to delete it...

 

[alexmst]

Am getting 60-100 SPAM messages per day - will teach me to publish my email id on two websites I have business relationships with.

Call me if you need: cheap Rolex or ED drugs or new girlfriend or great jobs or to help out unfortunates that just need another $1000 to save someone in a third/fourth world country or more SPAM.

Thinking of changing my email id with my provider - just a pain.

My ISP lets me set up an alias address linked to my real address for public display. So if my real address is alex@123, my alias might be bigalex@123. There is no bigalex account, but mail sent to it is routed to alex@123. When the spam gets to be too much, I can allow mail from up to 50 preferred names sending things to bigalex to be forwarded to my main account, and block the rest of bigalex messages into the junk mail folder so I never see them at all.

So, I might get 10 to 20 spam a day at alex@123, but 2,000 spam messages a week at bigalex. The 2,000 I don't see, and the people on my good list get passed straight to my main account.

 

[Jade4u]

I used to get loads of spam every single day and then I made a deal with Rogers and now have all my services with Rogers for one flat rate a month and what I found funny is that all spam stopped. I have not received any spam at all for weeks now. I used to get about 40 or so a day for ages. This really has me wondering if because I did a total change over they immediatly did some sort of upgrade to catch my spam for me. I now have 4 services with them and no longer dealing with Bell and am locked into a 3 year no cancellation or change to my agreement sort of deal, but did not know I signed up for a finally no spam at all inbox.

 

[RTRD]

If you switched...

I used to get loads of spam every single day and then I made a deal with Rogers and now have all my services with Rogers for one flat rate a month and what I found funny is that all spam stopped. I have not received any spam at all for weeks now. I used to get about 40 or so a day for ages. This really has me wondering if because I did a total change over they immediatly did some sort of upgrade to catch my spam for me. I now have 4 services with them and no longer dealing with Bell and am locked into a 3 year no cancellation or change to my agreement sort of deal, but did not know I signed up for a finally no spam at all inbox.

...from Bell to Rogers for your internet, what happens was that your IP address changed. That by itself will reduce a lot of spam, as often times spam is not sent so much to an email address but to an IP address that is known to be valid (this is how come you get spam from web pages you visit and pop ups even though you did not communicate your email address) .

It is also true that Rogers is a bit more vigilant than Bell in their network combing and filtering. They both did it, but Rogers uses a different product and algorithm.

 

[OddSox]

...from Bell to Rogers for your internet, what happens was that your IP address changed. That by itself will reduce a lot of spam, as often times spam is not sent so much to an email address but to an IP address that is known to be valid (this is how come you get spam from web pages you visit and pop ups even though you did not communicate your email address) .

Umm, email doesn't work that way.

 

[TheShadow]

The point is that the Rogers addys are new ones that take time to be found and added to spam mailers' lists.

AND WILL ALL YOU GUYS QUIT SENDING ME FVCKING GREETING CARDS!!!

 

[Twister]

Second what wiretapping on 'our networks'? Any efforts to conduct audits on IP traffic happens at the ISP level not over the network.

Actually they can monitor someone downloading torrents over the internet, they have your IP address and they can/will contact your provider to complain. (they being ie: the company that produced the game you downloaded)

 

[TDL2003]

Friggin Shit!!!

http://blog.mxlab.be/2008/09/11/your-internet-access-is-going-to-get-suspended-virus/

 

[plyrs99]

thank you TDL2003, just as i suspected.

Plyrs99

 

[Jade4u]

...from Bell to Rogers for your internet, what happens was that your IP address changed. That by itself will reduce a lot of spam, as often times spam is not sent so much to an email address but to an IP address that is known to be valid (this is how come you get spam from web pages you visit and pop ups even though you did not communicate your email address) .

It is also true that Rogers is a bit more vigilant than Bell in their network combing and filtering. They both did it, but Rogers uses a different product and algorithm.

No I already had rogers for my internet. It was my phone I changed and got a package deal for it all.