"Alert - A Child Predator has Moved into Your Neighborhood" Fake and Virus Emails
The email messages below with the subject: "ALERT: A child predator has moved into your neighborhood. Alert #963951742," are fakes and are malicious. The messages were created and sent by cyber-criminals to trick the recipients into clicking on the links in them that will take them to malicious websites, which will attempt to infect their computers with viruses, Trojan horse, or attempt to trick them into stealing their usernames, passwords and personal information.
The Fake and Malicious Email Messages
From: COMMUNITY ALERT MSG
Date: October 20, 2014 at 4:47:26 PM MST
Subject: ALERT: A child predator has moved into your neighborhood. Alert #963951742- - - - - - - - -AUTOMATED LOCAL COMMUNITY ALERT- - - - - - - - -
LOCAL COMMUNITY ALERT MESSAGING SYSTEMS.
DATE: 10.20.14
NEW COMMUNITY ALERT #:3018673351.THIS MESSAGE IS AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE. You've received this email to notify you that just recently a child predator has moved into your neighborhood. This information is based on the zip code tied to your IP address. When a sex-offender moves into a neighborhood, this information is now publically available.
THIS EMAIL IS AN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED MESSAGE.
You've receiving this email directly in order to inform you that recently a child-predator has relocated/moved into your current neighborhood. This information was generated based on your home IP address/zip code. Presently when a sex-offender moves into a neighborhood, the information becomes publically available.
Please visit here right now to view the full info about this new alert: URL REMOVED
Best Wishes,
LOCAL COMMUNITY ALERT MESSAGE SYSTEMS
FROM: COMMUNITY ALERT MSG
SUBJECT: ALERT: A child-predator just moved into your neighborhood. Alert #1374343656DT. 10.21.14.
HR-7 LOCAL COMMUNITY ALERT MESSAGING SYSTEMS.COMMUNITY ALERT No.13743436-06.
THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. This email has reached you today to inform you that as of just recently a child-predator relocated to your neighborhood (based on your IP address/zip code). Sex-offender information is publically available as a public safety service.
Visit here right now to view the specific details about this : [URL REMOVED]
Sincerely,
HR-7 LOCAL COMMUNITY ALERT MESSAGING SYSTEMS.
So, if you have received the same email messages, please do follow the instructions in them. You are advised to delete them instead.
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