[kwlug-disc] Trace spam email back to source

[Yas Adem]

Thanks guys. I won't spent much time on it... i was just curious.. lots of
old people get scams on this and really sad.

Regards

Yasin

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:00 AM Khalid Baheyeldin, <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> The From address can be forged, so it is not necessarily that his email is
> hacked.
>
> If you look into the email headers, which in Gmail are under 'Show
> Original', they may give a clue as to what server it came from.
>
> But don't spend too much time on it, since it can be anything.
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:51 AM Yas Adem <yadem.ethio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> i just received an email from friend i know and interestingly reply-to is
>> different email address. This email is basically asking to purchase Google
>> Play pay gift cards for him as he is in hospital helping relative, in short
>> i believe his email has been hacked.  I am not expert on this butis there a
>> way to trace back to thier source ip.. etc..
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Yasin
>>
>>
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