Bogus Email- Need help to do detective work

[Chris Kloiber]

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 23:34, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> >Have a look at the mail in plain format (I am not common if and how
> >Mozilla mail can do that). Normally those fake mails are in HTML and you
> >need to look at them in raw format to see the HTML tags, to where they
> >direct. I sometimes get faked eBay mails and inspecting the HTML code
> >you can see that the URI links do not direct to eBay but Russian or
> >Romanian hosts.
> >
> >You should too have a look at the full email header. There you can
> >follow the path the email took through the different mailservers.
> >
> >Alexander
> >  
> >
> To see the raw e-mail message on mozilla , go to the "View" menu , 
> "Message body as" and choose "plain text". This will give you all the 
> headers , unformatted html code , etc.
> If there are links in the message , see if they point to ip addresses..  
> Send the message source to your bank  ,so can they can give this 
> information to the police so they can track down these criminals.
> 
> --
> Pedro Macedo

Once you have the plain text with headers, print it and give it to your
bank officer. What those guys are doing is a federal crime, and the
FBI/CIA should be hunting them down like the dogs they are.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCX
Red Hat, Inc.