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Davey Gaga

Davey Gaga

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My mum received the following email today:

From: Monitoring Team <newsletter@juracity.de>
Sent: Friday, 7 November, 2008 8:42:11 AM
Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended

Your internet access is going to get suspended

The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.

We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were originating from

You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.

Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team
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I'm not sure what to make of this. The English is poor, the email comes from "newsletter@juracity.de" and, when I googled juracity, I could only find sites in German or that were otherwise irrelevant to the above issue in the email. They sent an attachment, which allegedly includes our internet activity over the last 6 months, but I'm not opening it - it's a winzip file and something smells fishy.

That said, my friend got a letter through the door saying something similar, about downloading music, specifically, and that he's also being monitored.

Anyone else get these messages? What do you make of them?
 
Can't say that I have, but then Im a good girl and I dont illegally download anything

Can't you like report it to....something, too prove it's not anything fishy, like watchdog or w/e? I hate opening things when I dont know where they come from. If it is genuine though, you are a naughty boy :wacky:

Also on that note, Danny always gets emails from 'banks' so imo, I'd say it's right to be initially suspicious D:

Alternitively, contact your Internet service provider, see what THEY say

Now why didn't I just think of that in the first place >_>
 
Your ISP in particular are the ones who can cut you off like that. Some random company like that shouldn't be able to at all, unless there's something I'm unaware of. So I shouldn't worry about it, unless you here from BT or Sky or whoever it is you get your internet from.

The nearest I've had is BT charging us a bit extra a couple of times for exceeding our download limit. There's never been any warnings.
 
The Reigning Deity said:
Can't say that I have, but then Im a good girl and I dont illegally download anything

Can't you like report it to....something, too prove it's not anything fishy, like watchdog or w/e? I hate opening things when I dont know where they come from. If it is genuine though, you are a naughty boy :wacky:

Also on that note, Danny always gets emails from 'banks' so imo, I'd say it's right to be initially suspicious D:

Alternitively, contact your Internet service provider, see what THEY say

Now why didn't I just think of that in the first place >_>
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Hahahah, the problem there being that I do download illegally (as does probably 95%+ of the general internet population) and so doing that would, essentially, be admitting to it to the RIGHT people, thereby shooting myself in the foot really, really hard.

The Man With No Name said:
Your ISP in particular are the ones who can cut you off like that. Some random company like that shouldn't be able to at all, unless there's something I'm unaware of. So I shouldn't worry about it, unless you here from BT or Sky or whoever it is you get your internet from.

The nearest I've had is BT charging us a bit extra a couple of times for exceeding our download limit. There's never been any warnings.
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That's what I was thinking...
 
Maybe you and your friend downloaded music or whatever from the same site, and this site sends out this letter/email thing?

.De means it's from Denmark, right? I wouldn't take it seriously unless you get a letter from your real email providers.
 
Artemis said:
Maybe you and your friend downloaded music or whatever from the same site, and this site sends out this letter/email thing?

.De means it's from Denmark, right? I wouldn't take it seriously unless you get a letter from your real email providers.
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He got a letter through the door; I got mine through an email.

Bella Swan said:
That is not sounding too good. And I wouldn't open the winzip file, if I were you. Good chance it's just a spam message with a virus attached.

Read these websites: http://www.gitui.com/email/subject-your-internet-access-is-going-to-get-suspended/

http://blog.mxlab.be/2008/09/11/your-internet-access-is-going-to-get-suspended-virus/

It's a virus, Dave. DON'T OPEN THE WINZIP.
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Ooooh, ta. :wacky:
 
The Man With No Name said:
The nearest I've had is BT charging us a bit extra a couple of times for exceeding our download limit. There's never been any warnings.
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Same here. :wacky:

I'm tempted to say that "Your internet access is going to get suspended" is a somewhat unprofessional title, I really don't think that would be the subject title. Also, they're more likely to send it via the post so there is some sort of evidence that they did send a warning.

And though I've heard that a few people have been warned about illegal downloading, I've never once heard that any of them have actually been punished for it.

So I wouldn't worry. :monster:
 
Anything thats that damn vague is fake. If they actually state your name, account number, and are from your ISP ( not some stupid blah blah @ immatard.net) then you can start to worry. Again, they cannot revoke your internet access due to the content you are downloading. They can limit it due to the amount of content you have downloaded, but that doesn't happen much. ( heck, first time i got my DSL installed, i had it going damn near 24/7 between me playing counter strike and my sis n law playing WOW and they didn't limit me or even hint at it)

In other words, relaxxxxxx exlaxxxxxx :wacky:
 
I'll bare all of this in mind. xD

It's just such a coincidence that my friend received a genuine letter from his ISP on the same day - they even listed the content that he'd downloaded. I'll at least cut down on how much I download, just incase I get a smack in the face. xD
 
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