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

[Bob]

…and along came AI. The grammatical gaffes will soon become a thing of he
past from the larger producers.

In my experience all these sleuthing techniques beyond looking at the
sending address are largely a waste of time and money unless you have the
ability to pursue the originating entity. My magic is the delete option

Bob KA9MDP

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 09:25 jerry <jerry at tr2.com> wrote:

> 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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