Online users, if you have received "United States District Court Deposition" email messages like the one below, which claim that you are to attend a deposition, and ask you to open the attachment in order to view details about the case, are asked to delete them. Also, online users should not attempt to open the attachment. This is because the email messages are fakes being sent by cybercriminals, and the attachments they contain are malicious.
The purpose of the fake and malicious email messages is to frighten and trick the recipients into opening the malicious attachment, by claiming they need to appear in court.
The "United States District Court Deposition" Malicious Email
United States District Court
Civil Action No. 6:15-145
You are commanded to appear at the time,date, and place to testify at a desposition to be taken in this civil action
This deposition will be recorded by this method: stenographically
It is extremely binding that you study the subpoena very closely.
This will state exactly what the process will be if you fall through to do what is bouden of you.
Find the attached document with all the case details including court location and primary information.
Password to open the attachment (scanned copy ) is 615145
This email is sent by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judicary. The purpose o fthis email is to provide information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
The malicious attachment contains JavaScript code that will attempt to download and install viruses, spyware and other malware onto the recipients' computers, if they attempt to open the Zip or compressed attachment.
Online users who have been tricked by the fake notice to appear in court email messages, into opening the malicious attachment, are asked to do a full-scan of their computers with the antivirus software installed on them.