The New York State Police issued an alert yesterday warning recipients of a spam email purporting to deliver a speeding ticket not to click on the attached zip file, which "likely" contains a computer virus. The email did not originate from the State Police or any other government agency, the alert said.
Most people are no doubt savvy enough to realize that traffic tickets aren't distributed via email, but some may be tempted to open the attachment out of curiosity — an unwise move, needless to say. Forensics experts are analyzing the file attachment to determine what, if any, virus it contains. See details and updates...
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Ya I Got a few of them.. Never click on them to open the file. I think the same Guy was sending the UPS Virus infected Spam Mail and the IRS Refund spam mail.
Here is what it look’s like..
……………………………………………………………………….
Ticket.zipTicket.zip
New York State — Department of Motor Vehicles
UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET
POLICE AGENCY
NEW YORK STATE POLICE
Local Police Code
THE PERSON DESCRIBED ABOVE IS CHARGED AS FOLLOWS
Time
7:25 AM
Date of Offense
07/02/2011
IN VIOLATION OF
NYS V AND T LAW
Description of Violation
SPEED OVER 55 ZONE
TO PLEAD, PRINT OUT THE ENCLOSED TICKET AND SEND IT TO TOWN COURT, CHATAM HALL., PO BOX 117
I received one yesterday.
This is the second one.
i just have this 1.. in my mail
Crap- I just tried multiple times to open. I was even confused by the date. Anyone know what might happen to the computer?
ALBANY, N.Y. — State police in New York are warning about a virus-laden email that appears to be a notice of a speeding ticket.
They say the bogus email is likely to have “Uniform Traffic Ticket” in the subject line and an attached zip file described as a ticket from the Department of Motor Vehicles that can be filled out and mailed to a local court.
Opening that attachment can infect the user’s computer. State police Sgt. Kern Svoboda says reports of the email have been coming in from across the country, starting overnight Wednesday. He says investigators with the Computer Crime Unit haven’t yet identified the type of infection carried by the email.
The email and its attachment shouldn’t be opened. If they are, update and run anti-virus software.
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP3585931506b648179675995d7937923a.html
Yeah I got one of these didn’t open it as I guessed what it is – the fact I was playing a tennis match in south australia on the date it mentions makes it dam impossible 2 be in NYC – delete it off my server – tried bouncing it with mailwasher but wouldn’t bounce so bit suss straight off.
I received one as well. Since I do not live in NY and I have never driven my vehicle to the state of NY, it was pretty obvious that it was a hoax.
I got about 15 of these emails each day, while living in the Netherlands and never been in NY.
Thank you for everyone’s comment.
It’s so helpful.
I am Japanese live in Australia.
I received the same one yesterday and today.
I was wondering what is this?
Thank goodness there wasn’t a file with it.
If there were I would open it.
Received one too
never been inusa
live in The Netherlands
My F Secure Internet Security removed the attachment
F Secure software considered it virus based on heuristic scanning
I received one as well.
Greetings from Holland !
AGP.
Greetings from Australia Melbourne yep I got this thing to but I use my libarays computer they have a really good anti virus program the thing they try. when I read this I thought huh!! me traffic ticket?? for starters I cant drive *L*
These people really do need to get a life and stop sending these silly emails. I live in Europe and yet received one of these claiming to be issued from New York.
So weird, I just got one today. I go to NY often but I wasn’t driving, my brother was. What is more never download anything from anyone I don’t know.
i had to format c:/ and install windows again:d
Think about it people! Even if your car was in New York, how would the police link your license plate to your email address? Who could believe such a thing? People must be very gullible.
Got one too.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7:06 AM
I live in the US, but I live in Maryland . . .
So that email was ridiculous . . .
I received one today and my antivirus filtered it as a Trojan and removed the file from the attachment.
Yea I opened it and my computer def got something now dnt know what to do : ( don’t even know what it did to my computer erased some desktop icons some files ugggg only me
I live in south africa and I have recieved 7 of these emails. I have never even been out of the country, and I get this crap. What can we do?
Thank you! I received this as well and deleted it.
I got one today. It scared me for a minute because for one I don’t live in NY and two I thought maybe someone was using my e-mail address. Somehow I knew that it must of been garbage because it went into my spam folder.
I opened this one because Yahoo Norton said “no virus detected.”
If you have this problem run SYSTEM RESTORE and set your computer back one day. Don’t reformat your system, doing a restore seems to have worked just fine.
You’ll have to shut your computer off, put in a windows disk and run your computer up in SAFE MODE. Then hit control/alt/delete and bring up task manager.
Click “new task” it’s one of the 3 buttons at the bottom. In the window you get type RESTORE. You will then get a window with 5 icons in it. Click the computer icon (the one that is blue with a green arrow pointing at it and a clock overlaid on it). This will run your windows restore and you can choose a date to roll back to.
So…with all the great technology and spy ‘stuff’, we can’t trace these spams to their source?
I got this e-mail my self but being a new yorker I opened it with out thinking . It is a prank virus that switches your command keys and hot keys around (ie. enter key becomes esc or space bar becomes the F10 key). Theres no real harm done to your operating system how ever is simple reboot will not correct it. Pretty simple to fix if you have a friend with some level of computer knowledge. I’m a computer software programmer so it was kind of fun to fix(Huge headache never the less).
I received this same email 11/3/11. How do these people get your email address?
I live in the UK and have received 2 e-mails TODAY as described above. They purport to be from support@sky.com and both have the “Person Described Above” as jan. ********** and jan.*****; NOT ME I HAVE TO SAY!!!!!!!!!!!
I have phoned SKY and am awaiting a call back from them to get their “phishing” web account so as to report this scam. All major web account holders have a “phishing” e-mail address where “scam” documents can be forwarded to their Security Department for them to investigate.
PHEW – DON’T OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU KNOW THE SOURCE.
J
—– Forwarded Message —–
From: New York Police Dep.
To:
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 1:59 PM
Subject: Uniform traffic ticket
New York State — Department of Motor Vehicles
UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET
POLICE AGENCY
NEW YORK STATE POLICE
Local Police Code
THE PERSON DESCRIBED ABOVE IS CHARGED AS FOLLOWS
Time
8:32 AM
Date of Offense
17/01/2012
IN VIOLATION OF
NYS V AND T LAW
Description of Violation
SPEED OVER 55 ZONE
TO PLEAD, PRINT OUT THE ENCLOSED TICKET AND SEND IT TO TOWN COURT, CHATAM HALL., PO BOX 117
I received this at a date, time and state when I was driving. I thought, yea how could they connect this with my email? *has like 5 different emails.* I did open it, which I shouldn’t have. I saw multiple recipients and it did not look right for me to open. googled and found this article. Thanks. *deletes and passes on info.*
Yesterday, January 22, 2012, i receive the email and damaged my computer, this guys want the owner of computers buy to then some repair software. Want over $80.00 dollars for repairs. The e-mail ID is A.A. Ticket, and use the American Airlines name in the message. That are irresposable person that use the WWW for doing that thing. Find then and put in public place, the public applied the law, and never doing again in his life. I found in the middle of important job for the University. Many people suffer for this inresponsability.
yeah got one of those this morning and i am in new zealand so go figure
luckily i hav heard enuf stories not 2 open random attachments, so kindly told them it wasnt for me
I got one today with a violation date of 4/31/2012. Idiots can’t even get the calendar straight.