Re: Confirming the veracity of Email

From: claudel (claudel_at_bolt.sonic.net)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:25:32 GMT

In article <XXH%b.6232$t16.4317503@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com>,
kulm_nd <g-w@ComcastREMOVE.net> wrote:
>Look at the headers and see where it really came from. Headers can be
>spoofed but often the path would show some foreign IP that should not be
>there. Then verify that the URL is correctly formed (there is an IE patch to
>help).
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>"Peter James" <nospam@petefjames.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:1077866136.30914.0@damia.uk.clara.net...
>> I've been getting a fair amount of "spam" that purports to come from
>> eBay asking me to confirm my account details, bank accounts, credit
>> cards etc, etc. Now this is obviously a scam and I just delete and
>> ignore it. But it does raise the question in my mind as to how you
>> can tell if an email does come from who it says it does.
>> What I'm asking is, how do you authenticate a questionable email?
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>> Peter James
>> Change AT to @ to reply
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Ebay and PayPal have a "spoof@xxx" to check out possible
phishmail. Forward questionable mails to them if there's
any doubt. Dont click anything in the mail. Like prior posters have
already said, they probably _are_ bogus. I've been getting
lots of "auction won" crap but I haven't been bidding lately...

Claude