FBI&Secret Service visit my office!!!

It started like this. "Hello, this is everyones internet level two tech support, how may I help you?". A very monotone voice on the other end say's "Hello, may I speak with Robert Pennington please?"<<the CEO. of EV1>> Amused, I said to the customer, " Sir, Mr. Pennington is very busy but how can i help you?" He then told me that he was Agent Jim Cook Secret Service. And that he needed to speak with Mr. Pennington IMMIDIATLEY! Well that changed my whole perspective on this call. I transferred the call and that was all I heard directly from them.

However about an hour or so after that, I see these guys in suits come in the office. You have to keep in mind, I work at a very laid back ISP, YOU NEVER SEE PPL IN SUITS! Not even the ceo wears a suit. He acctually rides around the office on a little electric scooter and shoots us with his nerf gun whe we look like were slacking. Any Ways....they went into the conference room, conveniently named "the war room", shut the door and didnt come out....at least while I was there.

Rumors are flyin around too fast to catch em one at a time.Seems as though someone sent a terroristic email from our mail server. Also we have heard "through the grape vine", that it could have possibly been a threat on our building. Course I think our bosses would have told us had there been a threat on the building. Then again.....you never know.

This whole ordeal has left me worried. Do you guys think that the Feds would let our bosses tell us of a terror threat? I guess the best thing for me to do is answer the phones fix computers, and pray.

Greetings:

Well, the secret service mainly only gets involved in 3 things:

#1. Threats against the life of the president (or those close to / associate with / him).
#2. Counterfeiting
#3. Credit Fraud

So, if they showed up, my guess would be, say, someone that's a customer of the ISP sent an e-mail to *@whitehouse.gov threatening to kick-off good 'ol GW Bush.

It was most likly just some idiot playing around with his computer. But hey, what the hell do I know?

Well, I for one would like to know if the building I worked in was threatened by a terrorist. I'm sure that they would inform you if a threat was made, for your safety. If the secret service was there, then my guess is that a terrorist related e-mail went throught your ISP and they're investigating. If it were just a threat to your building, then I don't think it would involve the secret service. Then again, may be not. Let us know if you find out anything else.

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THanks for the reply JP that really narrows it down....now that you think about it.....they did put up signs to day talking about unlicenced software. Maybe they were investigating a warez site or somthing cheesy like that. That would be a relife for me. I don't wanna be a vctm of Jihad Ma Chowdaas

Nah it's probably some wanker holding George Bush's Credit Card for Ransome

hmmm well all i can say is that IF they say they are Secret Service.. doesnt really mean they really are Secret Service... any US Govt agency can make fake id's for their agents and pretend they are from another agency... they probably are from CIA or FBI.. or a whole new govt agency.. i dunno but arent there new agencies today incharge with computer crimes? like the CSI and all tha others?.. it could have been them..

sounds weird, I don't know much about the CIA but would be a little cautios about going to work the following day.

If they focus their investigation on you, just remember that the term Justice Department is an oxymoron.

toker well i would make sure u have a will made up in the off chance but then again it could just be a mis understanding maybe your boss won't let them run carnivore on your system???

My bet is the threat on the president. The Secret Service checks them out with a passion. I wouldn't won't to be the one they're after for any reason! :cool:

Yea if it was anything involving you they would have had to shut the place down or at least warn you unless they wanted a lawsuit if somthing did happen. Noones mentioned the social engineering possibility. I don't know very much about the situation but when I first read your post I thought "scam, scam, scam , scam...scam." The suits were probly in the back room going "all right to track this super scary hacker I need r00t access to all of your servers." Not likely but possible :)

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Originally posted here by preacherman481
My bet is the threat on the president. The Secret Service checks them out with a passion.

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Just read this post and had to address... a 7th grader at my school sum years back (im in 11th now) was investigated by the SS cuz he posted a hitlist including former-President Clinton and Bill Clinton too. So the threat to the president is a more likely scenario than any I've heard.

i think by law u have to know if their is a threat on your life so if th building was threated i think by law u have to know well thats it
RIOtEr

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i think by law u have to know if their is a threat on your life so if th building was threated i think by law u have to know well thats it
RIOtEr

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hmm not really.. there are some situations that YOU are not allowed to know.. even if it involves u a 100%.. depending on what is at risk..

That's not the way it's supposed to work, key words supposed to, in the USA Sonic. I know that our government has and does overstep their bounds sometimes and hopefully one day the ppl of the USA will get this and do something about it. I don't think it will happen anytime soon, too many idiots unfortunately.

ccKid

I wouldn't have a problem with the feds at my job, as long as they don't touch my stash......moustache.


Face it, the WU is back

I bet its some lame e-mail threat. Wonder if carnivore or echelon were involved.

You must have been getting close to the truth.....

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hmmm well all i can say is that IF they say they are Secret Service.. doesnt really mean they really are Secret Service... any US Govt agency can make fake id's for their agents and pretend they are from another agency...

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What would be the point?

Here's another two cents worth...
Suppose the Feds rec'd word of a threat (electronic or otherwise) against a particular part of the US. The info about the threat came from "credible sources." After doing a little digging, the Feds decide to check things out - and start with your company.

Hey...they could have visited a lot of other buildings in the area. Never know. If the CEO got word from the Feds about a possible threat against your building, they could have been conducting a little investigating of their own to see how valid the threat is.

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by shkuey
What would be the point?

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Anonimity my friend.. anonimity... agents may not want to risk being exposed.. or they want to have access to certain things that only a certain agency is allowed.. so they pretend to be that agency..

if i was CIA and i would like to access some national security encryption codes made by the govt, i would come as an NSA agent since NSA has full access to national security encryption codes w/o any questions from people guarding them..

Alls quiet today...no feds, no suits nothing, managers arent even here.....a few downed servers....the norm.....weird.

We've had the fbi in our office before. No big deal. If you need to know, they'll tell you. Probably like jp said.