Part One - "Security Issues"Recently i am receiving 3-4 scammy emails every day. They tend to become more and more and looks like soon will be bigger problem than
scam mail. Even now, they are worse, because should you believe them, you may loose a lot, really a lot of money and get into all other kind of troubles. There are several different categories of scam mail an we will discuss them in following issues. I will try to help you protect yourself of faling in hands of net-gangsters.
Let us first see newest and growing very fast family of "Security Issues" emails. Here fall fake e-gold emails, "paypal" security warnings, e-bay and different warning emails from "banks".
In 99% of cases those letters state that there is a security problem with your account and it will be terminated if you don't perform a certain action. This could be very frustrating - we all know how picky are payment processors and that they really suspend accounts. So we need to be sure that we don't get scammed, at same time that our accounts won't be suspended or hacked.
How to recognize them and protect?
1. Always look at email headers. They will show you a lot of info. Each email program or web based email has an option "View full headers", "Show email headers etc.". Look at the: Return path, Received: from IP address, Source-Dir if available. For example a fake e-gold warning was sent to me with this:
Return-path: Received: from [70.84.105.244]Obviously this do not come from e-gold. If you only see IP in Received: from you can compare it to IP address of site, which should be sender by pinging in MS DOS prompt (type: ping e-gold.com for example).
