Lawyers tricked by court bankruptcy virus scam

An Atlanta court is warning users of its electronic filing system that a pop-up which claims to be a bankruptcy survey linked to its site is actually a virus.

A computer virus was detected at a court in Atlanta Brian Senic

The Atlanta-based 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals has made an announcement saying: 'Please know that we do NOT currently have a survey being sent through CM/ECF or any other source. If you receive an email or pop-up requesting your participation in a survey from our court, do not open it. Please delete it.' 

Computer infected

A lawyer warned the court that when he was using the electronic filing system, a popup message asked him to take part in a survey on bankruptcy. After he clicked OK he discovered that a virus had infected his computer. Source: ABA

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