Has anyone else just gotten a bizarre email supposedly from Fincen with a message from a child in IRAQ with pictures attached. The email address is Fincennnews@fincen.gov.

I don't believe this is really from Fincen!!!

Everyone on the QuikNews distribution list must have received it. Clearly, FinCEN is not the source; someone hijacked their mailing list.

Does anyone else find that a little scary? I mean FinCEN's computers being hijacked?

It shook me up a little. Kinda like a threat. I called FinCEN but have had no response.

I'd be interested to hear what they say. Please post their response, if you get one!

Follow-up message received from QuikNews:

FinCEN QuikNews recipients:

You may have received a message this morning which appeared to originate from FinCEN’s QuikNews system. This message was not sent by FinCEN and we are currently investigating its origin.

They called me back to confirm that it did not come from them and gave instructions not to reply and not to forward.......just delete it.

FinCEN is saying to not reply to the message and ignore it.

I think it's important that you do not reply to the message. There is a "reply to address" in the message, but it does not go back to FinCEN. If you reply, you will confirm to whoever spoofed this message that (1) you actually received it; and (2) your email address is legitimate.

Also, please be careful with any speculation about how or why this happened. Remember, everyone in the world with internet access can potentially read this thread.

Right.. It could just be a prankster not terrorist. It still unnerved me.

I placed a call to FINCEN and have received a response from them that they are aware of this and DO NOT want to receive anymore phone calls. FINCEN has also sent out an email concerning this bogus message.

I was even skeptical of the second email, "improtant"?

The way my email is set up I can't see what the pictures are. What is it? I thought the subject line sounded very unprofessional (coming from FinCEN), therefore not believing it was legit. I went to FinCEN's website and I haven't seen anything about it.

The message contains an image of someone cleaning up what appears to be huge pool of blood on a street and there is an image of a small apparently injured child laying on a bed.

Second message carries the standard physical appearance and formatting. Elapsed time between the two messages was 31 minutes. That's pretty good by anyone's standards.

I got one only so far.
Awful stuff!
I forwarded mine to the Webmaster at FinCEN.

I called FINCEN and they say it is under investagation now. also when I tried to unsubsribed it would'nt let me but it would let me send a reply???

Just delete the bogus message; do not respond to any of the options it offers and do not forward it. They know they have a problem.

Did you get FinCEN's email about 20 minutes following the bogus one stating that email did not come from them and that they were checking into it to see where it did come from? Whoever said this was "scary" was right - this is a little un-nerving.

FinCEN response. Note the chasm between QuikNews and the sensitive data bases.

I wonder if they are going to file a SAR for the system intrusion?

Maybe they should have done more due diligence and monitoring of their email service provider....

Thanks for the information, Ken. This is very good news indeed. I hope they are able to catch the people who sent the message.

Just goes to show ya that no one is completely safe. I am sure FINCEN has state of the art protocols and protection in place, but whatever can be done can be undone. Hackers will find a way.