How you get to the headers varies between email clients. Therefore we may safely conclude that this email is not from Alice, and we should not send her money to the Philippines. In this case, 168.62.170.129 is clean so we can be nearly certain the attack was done from 209.86.89.64.Īnother point to keep in mind is that Alice uses Yahoo! ( ) and. isn't on the Yahoo! network (you may want to re-check its IP Whois information). There is still the possibility that the server 209.86.89.64 is innocent and just a relay for the real attacker at 168.62.170.129. The blacklist complaint could just be added by the scammer to wipe out his traces and/or lay a false trail. See, he is listed in 3 blacklists! There is yet another record below it: Received: from (helo=laurence39)īut be careful trusting that this is the real source of the email. This could be, and very often is, the real sender of the email - in this case the scammer! You can check this IP on a blacklist. You can trust this because it was recorded by Bill's mail server for. Hence, the last (first chronologically) trusted "hop" - or last trusted "Received record" or whatever you call it - is this one: Received: from. (. ) You can use online tools like Mx Toolbox, or on Linux you can query it on command line (note the real domain name was changed to ): ~$ host -t MX Īnd you'll see the mail server for is or. For this, query MX record for the domain. Let's start by finding Bill's mail server. Now, to find the real sender of your email, you must find the earliest trusted gateway - last when reading the headers from top. This says that mx. has received the mail from at Mon, 04:11:00 -0700 (PDT). Every new server on the way adds its own message - starting with Received. The headers are to be read chronologically from bottom to top - oldest are at the bottom. Subject: Terrible Travel Issue.Kindly reply ASAPĬontent-Type: multipart/alternative boundary="jtkoS2PA6LIOS7nZ3bDeIHwhuXF=_9jxn70" Received: from. (. )īy (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43175D3A44 Spf=neutral (: 2a01:348:0:6:5d59:50c3:0:b0b1 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ) The full email and its headers will open: Delivered-To: I have changed the names - I am "Bill," and the scammer has sent an email to, pretending to be. See below for an example of a scam that was sent to me, pretending to be from my friend, claiming she has been robbed and asking me for financial aid.
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