Official looking FAKE TRAFFIC TICKET EMAIL

[ainitfunny]

BEWARE, do not open attached file to FAKE "traffic ticket"
I sit here in WASHINGTON State and get an emailed (fake) speeding ticket, supposedly from NY State with a FILE ATTACHED which they are certain people will open to see what the hell this is about....but I didn't. I haven't been in NY State in 38 years and neither has my car.
I don't even know HOW I got the email because it was not addressed to MY exact email address, not even close to my user name. They do not even have a complete address(no state or Zip code) in the part of the email you can see without opening the attached file.

IT IS A SCAM ACCORDING TO THIS WEBSITE, AND MANY PEOPLE ARE GETTING THIS FAKE TICKET/VIRUS?? http://www.scamtrends.com/uniform-traffic-ticket/

Got a suspicious looking email that claims you need to pay a speeding ticket in New York? Whatever you do, don't open it - and definitely don't open the attachment it says you need to print out in order to pay.

The email, uncovered by security firm Sophos, claims to come from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. The attached file, Ticket-O64-211.zip contains "a malicious Trojan horse," writes Sophos' senior consultant and highly influential Twitter user Graham Cluley, "designed to download further malicious code onto your computer and compromise your security."

The email, previously sent to Yahoo accounts, is now being spread far and wide across different email providers.

We're not sure how many email users will fall for this trick. It is extremely unusual to receive a traffic ticket via email, let alone from New York's overworked DMV. The body of the email gets very specific, claiming that you were speeding in a 55 mph zone at 7:25 a.m. on July 5 - further reducing the number of recipients who are likely to think this applies to them. And perhaps the biggest giveaway is the instruction "to plead, print out ticket and send it to Town Court, Chatam Hall [sic], PO Box 117." Chances are this Trojan's creator doesn't hail from the U.S. There is a Chatham Hall, but that's in Virgina.

Still, the threat is serious enough for New York State Police to issue a warning of their own. After all, if you start to mistrust the accuracy of a traffic ticket, you may be less likely to pay when the real thing lands on your doormat.

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[Floratrek]

I got it Wednesday! Lucky for me I remembered I didn't go anywhere, let alone mail a package. So I checked scams on Ixquick (startpage) Havn't looked up "trojan",yet.
I was extremely busy on the Saturday it said I had mailed a package. Spent all that day making green tomato pies and cottage cheese strudels for a wild game dinner.
OOPS!! just re skimmed your post. Mine was from alledged USPS. very official sounding.

 

[raggi5]

I oddly only get these types of scams from the IRS or FBI... I think it would be interesting to see if they actually change the location based on who it is sent to...