that it was a hoax -- your first message was good enough, and not directed
at the person who shared the news with this group ....
Well, in fairness, it was sent to me and CC'd to the list.
Now, MORE TOPICALLY, a short while ago, I received a reply to one of my
emails to Inspector Fried. He indicates he has some meetings tomorrow, and
should be able to discuss the matter further on Thursday. I don't have
permissions from him at this time to quote his message in this forum, so I
won't do that. I will point out that he indicated that he's a computer
security specialist - not a PR person.
[nor an English teacher :-)]
Perhaps I can convince him to post his plea directly to this list (the only
time in recent memory I can think of that the fact this list doesn't
require you to be subscribed might pay off), then those who wish to
question the authenticity of the message can check the archived source
message from the list server.
'Till then, hopefully those who are currently mass-forwarding all their
spam to the net-abuse(_at_)nocs(_dot_)insp(_dot_)irs(_dot_)gov address will
discontinue doing so
at least until the're satisfied that the request is in fact legitimate.
Yes, PLEASE DO THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE FORWARDING. (I re-post this part in
case some folks have wearied of the hoax/grammar discussion and abandoned
the thread in the middle.)