16 Nov
2021
16 Nov
'21
10:40 a.m.
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:02:49AM -0500, Glenn McGurrin via NANOG wrote:
I had a bit of an odd one this morning, I received two emails through contacts listed in whois subject: "Urgent: Threat actor in systems" from "eims@ic.fbi.gov". I was all set to ignore them as an odd bit of spam
Private reply. Having had several interactions with the FBI (and a few other TLA), they have confirmed that they never use email for critical communications like these. So you can relax if you get email from the IRS, FBI or most any other government agency. As federal agencies, they use the US Mail. The SBA is an exception; they do use email to request and communicate information.