We get these letters all of the time. They are indeed legit but pretty much worthless. About as good as some of our DMCA letters.
-------- Original Message -------- From: Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 3:23 PM To: Bryan Horstmann-Allen <b...@mirrorshades.net> CC: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter >On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: > >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> | On 2012-01-27 18:12:16, Carlos Alcantar wrote: >> | >> | Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives >> | us login information, for listing of ip's within our network that where >> | affected with date and time stamps. Anyone else get these yet? >> >> I have. The login doesn't work (for me). htauth pops up on fbi.gov, creds >> don't >> auth. > >Ours didn't work initially either. Eventually it did. > >> Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed. > >It's definitely real, but seems like they're handling it as incompetently >as possible. We got numerous copies to the same email address, the logins >didn't work initially. The phone numbers given are of questionable >utility. Virtually no useful information was provided. My attitude at >this point is, ignore it until they provide some useful information. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | >_________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > >
