jim tate wrote:
I have been recieveing Bogus email's to sign onto to my bank account, so someone can get my userid and password.
So have I. Plus include bogus e-mails claiming to be AMEX, Home Depot, PayPal, etc...
My Bank say's these are bogus email's and not to respond to them.
Listen to them. They are correct.
I have been recieveing them in Mozilla mail.
Shouldn't matter what MUA you are using.
How can I tell where these email will return to , should I reply or respond to info requested.
I wouldn't reply. It's probably forged anyway.
There has got to be a way to back track.
Check the e-mail headers and find the open relay that sent these e-mails. Then report this open relay to the ISP that owns the netblock. Good luck! A lot of these so called open relay IP addresses are the "throw away" variety. Used only once.
Also, check the html code of the e-mail. Most reference images from your bank's website, but contain a redirect to some web server that actually captures your information. Again, try to report this website to the owning ISP.
I hope I can get the linux community help me to track down the low life crooks.
It's easy to track down and report where these e-mails came from. The hard part is getting the owning ISP to do anything about it. ISP's probably receive hundreds (if not thousands) of these complaints a day.
BTW: I phoned up my grandmother and educated her on this new breed of spam (identity theft).
Steve Cowles