Re: How do they blank out IP addresses etc?

From: Gareth Jones (gareth@uberdog.net)
Date: 01/28/02


From: Gareth Jones <gareth@uberdog.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:57:41 GMT

John Perry <JohnPerry@redoak.co.ukNOSPAM> wrote:

>I received this HTML mail from a hotmail user but I've changed my email
>to zzzz and the originator to yyyy.
>
>How did he do this? No originating IP address and no audit trail at
>all. Any tips guys?
>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----_=_NextPart_003_01BOAKAT.8D5BF46A"
>Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?New msg ?=
>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:13:00 PST
>From: yyyy@hotmail.com
>To: zzzz@hotmail.com
>X-Originating-IP: []

This is not the full header. Perhaps your email program doesn't
display it all? The From: field is set by the sender - it is trivial
to forge. You should have a series of from headers somewhere. Some of
these might be faked, but at least one must be real...

Gareth



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