BS: Avoiding or reporting spoof emails

17 Oct 23 - 04:29 PM (#4191133)
Subject: BS: Avoiding or reporting spoof emails
From: FreddyHeadey

"Email spoofing takes advantage of the fact that email, in many ways, is not very different from regular mail.
Each email has three elements: an envelope, a message header, and a message body.
An email spoofer puts whatever they want into each of those fields, not just the body and “To:” fields. This means they can customize the information in the following fields:
Mail from:
Reply to:
From:
Subject:
Date:
To:   "
www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/email-spoofing

The .gov page
www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing
says
Forward suspicious emails to
[e-mail]

Does it have any effect?

Do you have links other pages which have good advice?

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17 Oct 23 - 04:50 PM (#4191131)
Subject: RE: BS: Avoiding or reporting spoof emails
From: Stilly River Sage

We were just discussing this on the Nick Dow heart attack thread, is that what brought it up? I remarked that the "hacked email" someone reported might actually be spoofed email, meant to look like it was coming from someone it wasn't.

At one time there was a US government agency you could forward spoofed and phishing email to, but I have to think about it - did it work and who were they?

I use Malwarebytes for real time virus and malware scanning and they send out security tips in monthly newsletters. I should look through past posts to see what they say about email.

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17 Oct 23 - 05:05 PM (#4191132)
Subject: RE: BS: Avoiding or reporting spoof emails
From: Backwoodsman

Mrs. Backwoodsperson, her folks, and I were discussing this only today, after her mother received an email purporting to be from a friend who died in 2022.

IMHO there are three steps…

1) Report to [e-mail]
2) Block the sender.
3) Delete the offending email.

IMHO, YMMV.

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