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Ask Erik: Is this email fake? How can I tell?

Thursday, December 28th, 2017

In a recent “Ask Erik” question, Eve asked:

“I received a copy of an email that someone claims they sent to me. They did not forward this apparent email they claim they sent to me. Rather they copied and pasted it into a current email.

However, I did not receive this email, and in all honesty this apparent copy of this email looks fake. I believe I could easily create this type of fake email myself. So, is there a way of telling whether someone has faked an email which they claim they sent to you? And, should I insist that the original email they claim they sent to be is forwarded to me and not copied and pasted?”

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Tags: email, fake, forged, forged email
Posted in LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email
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8 Ways to Protect yourself from Forged/Fake Email

Monday, January 26th, 2015

The Internet is rife with fake and forged email.  Typically these are email messages that appear to be from a friend, relative, business acquaintance, or vendor that ask you to do something.  If you trust that the message is really from this person, you are much more likely to take whatever action is requested — often to your detriment.

These are forms of social engineering — the “bad guys” trying to establish a trusted context so that you will give them information or perform actions that you otherwise would not or should not do.

Here we address some of the actions you can take to protect yourself from these attacks as best as possible.  We’ll present these in the order of increasing complexity / technical difficulty.

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Tags: dkim, dns, email, fake, filtering, forged, html, phishing, read, social engineering, spam, spf
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email
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