New GMail feature

#0 - June 4, 2010, 5:41 a.m.

I just noticed on a phisher email, that was posing as a blizzard email adress, also showed the email provider that the email came from.

Q u o t e:
from [email protected] <[email protected]>
to [email protected]
date Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM
subject World of Warcraft - Account Authenticator
mailed-by hotmail.com

Not sure if this has been around a bit, but it's new to me.

I would recommend that anyone that has been hacked, or has been getting phishing emails, to get a gmail set up just for your account, just so you can see if it's legit or not.

Orlyia

#1 - June 4, 2010, 7:12 a.m.

You can actually see this in any email if you look at the internal routing headers, Denet.

It's lovely that some mail systems make this a simpler process as those headers can be a bit challenging to learn to decipher, but all email programs should be capable of it in one way or another.

Probably THE best first check, the FROM line that normally shows in an email should never be trusted, it is incredibly easy to change to anything you care for it to say.