[Elecraft] Beware of junk mail: "four pictures to you from Elecraft List"

[jerry]

Once you find the initial IP address in the headers, you can use any 
number
of online searches to find out who it belongs to.  If you get a notice 
from
"Fedex", and it's from an IP that belongs to an ISP in Bulgaria, that's 
a pretty
good hint.

I mostly use this sort of search to satisfy my curiosity - but I 
generally already
know that it's a scam.  Often the English is bad, there are non-native 
expressions
etc.  But I don't expect that to continue.

  Sooner or later, the scammers will learn to do perfect American 
English.  Or will they?
   I've heard that grammatical gaffes help select for marks who are not 
smart or well educated -
because they're where the money is.

                     - Jerry, KF6VB





On 2024-01-03 07:18, Bill Lederer wrote:
> If you use google mail/gmail, there is a feature called "Show
> Original" that you see if you click the three dots in the upper right
> corner of the email.
> 
> You can also report phishing from that drop-down.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 6:08 PM jerry <jerry at tr2.com> wrote:
> 
>> The email address means little.  Email systems will accept whatever
>> you
>> type in.  What's more meaningful is the originating IP address.
>> That's
>> hard to fake.  Most mailers have a "show headers" feature so you can
>> see
>> all the machines that the email passed through.
>> 
>> - Jerry, KF6VB
>> 
>> On 2024-01-02 14:26, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>>> This underlines how important it is to use an e-mail program that
>>> displays the originating address.  That "you've won a ..."  e-mail
>>> from a major retailer is quickly revealed to be from some obscure
>>> address (not Home Depot or Walmart, after all).  A couple of days
>> ago,
>>> I received a message purportedly from a relative of my
>> sister-in-law,
>>> who passed away last fall.  Happily, the originating address was a
>>> giveaway - "Amanda Rosman <alberto.garciaga at alumno.buap.mx>".
>>> 
>>> 73, Pete N4ZR
>>> 
>>> On 1/2/2024 4:13 PM, Dave wrote:
>>>> I don't know if anyone else on the Elecraft list is receiving
>> this
>>>> nonsense, but I have reported it for enforcement action to the UK
>>>> Government reporting centre.
>>>> 
>>>> 73 Dave G4AON
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