Just got a email not sure what to do

#0 - Nov. 8, 2010, 7:58 a.m.

if you would like me to post the email and every thing about it i will since i didnt see this under your email to watch out for.It says that I requested to get my email changed from my current email to another that i have not tried to change it at all so theirs two things that can be going on I got a fake email or a real one that i need to get fixed right away. I will wait for a responce on if you want me to link the entire email and the name it came from. I already changed my password just incase

Orlyia

#1 - Nov. 8, 2010, 8:04 a.m.

The first thing to examine is the internal routing headers in the email.

FROM addresses in the body should never, ever be trusted.

Pop open the internal header and locate the sender - you can post that here if you like, I'd recommend editing out your own email address.

Orlyia

#3 - Nov. 8, 2010, 8:10 a.m.

No, that's the FROM line.

You need to pop open the part that most emails don't show by default, the internal routing headers.

Faking the FROM line is as easy as writing a fake return address on an envelope, means very little.

Orlyia

#5 - Nov. 8, 2010, 8:13 a.m.

Every email program is a bit different. Somewhere - either in your options, or perhaps on the page if it's a webbased program there is a way to look at the internal routing headers.

Orlyia

#7 - Nov. 8, 2010, 8:14 a.m.

Q u o t e:
i belive i found it under options would you like me to post what it came with and edit my email again?

Sure, just take out your own information, no need to spread that further about the net :)

Orlyia

#12 - Nov. 8, 2010, 8:57 a.m.

Q u o t e:
lol im noob when it comes to these things im still waiting for the responce on if i linked the right thing or not. Do you know for sure if yours was phishing?

The internal routing header will look like so much scrambled information, lots of numbers and not easy to decipher.

If it looks like that - yes, that's what you are looking for :)