Thread: license information scam?

Originally Posted by exegenisis

BTW email headers are possible to fake.

Email headers will tell you everything you need, to determine if the email is legit or not.
If it's passed SPF, DKIM, DMARC, you can confidently assume it's coming from the domain it claims to be.
At the minimum it will have the email return path, so you can verify that it is going to the correct domain, and not a gmail, outlook.com, etc mail address.

The other points around links, embedded email addresses not matching, signature block missing, etc, all back this up very quickly.

Originally Posted by quentin

Email headers will tell you everything you need, to determine if the email is legit or not.
If it's passed SPF, DKIM, DMARC, you can confidently assume it's coming from the domain it claims to be.
At the minimum it will have the email return path, so you can verify that it is going to the correct domain, and not a gmail, outlook.com, etc mail address.

The other points around links, embedded email addresses not matching, signature block missing, etc, all back this up very quickly.

fuck man we are hunters and collectors , layman's terms would be good however I agree with the original op ...if its important they will make proper contact via more exactable means otherwise treat it like spam and completely ignore it.

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

fuck man we are hunters and collectors , layman's terms would be good however I agree with the original op ...if its important they will make proper contact via more exactable means otherwise treat it like spam and completely ignore it.

Fair call.

TBH, like most things, it's easy when you know what you are looking for. Most mail clients allow you to view the original message, headers and all. It's not an easy read, hence why these are not shown by default. Google for example make some of this really easy, and tend to flag emails that do not pass these checks with a big red banner, advising someone is possibly trying to scam you.

If you feel inclined to check for yourself, it's easy to do. Screenshot attached of how to do this in GMail.