A warning was issued to the public generated by Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, concerning a new email scam in progress. Conspiracy theorist are the main targets of an online scam promising to deliver the truth about the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Sophos has disclosed that the social engineering scheme is structured with a dying KGB agent as source, in order to provide authenticity and incentive for the completion of the 419 fraud.

"You can talk about it with your friends and neighbors. You can write your own shocking book that will have success and bring you fame. You can call in to radio talk shows. You can raise the issues. You can demand answers - not in 50 years or 100 years, but right now, in our lifetime," promises the KGB agent in the spam emails claiming to poses access to declassified CIA and KGB documents.

"There is a conspiracy at work here, but it's not about whether someone was lurking on a grassy knoll in Dallas on 22 November 1963," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "Internet criminals are conspiring to steal sensitive information and raid the bank accounts of unsuspecting internet users. If everyone showed the same skepticism to unsolicited emails as some do to the official investigations into the Kennedy assassination, then maybe less people would end up the victims of a scam."