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This is a dangerous type of scam message, one that arrives with an attachment that probably contains a computer virus. It attempts to frighten you into opening the attachment (which is deactivated here) by implying that you are supposed to appear in court and need to respond immediately to acknowledge the conditions of your trial.
From: Stella alberto.battaglini0@alice.it
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015
Subject: Pretrial requirementsPlease read pretrial requirements in attached document.
Waiting for your replypretrial_requirements.zip
Shortly after the above message arrived, I received a second copy from a different email address, showing that the sender’s account in each case has probably been hacked and is sending these messages without the true owner’s knowledge:
From: Belle gioian3@alice.it
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015
Subject: Pretrial requirementsPlease read pretrial requirements in attached document.
Waiting for your replypretrial.zip
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