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Old 29th Mar 2015, 18:52
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Wader2
 
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I use a program called Mailwasher.

Normally it will show the email address of the originator. I received an authentic email purporting to be from my ISP; it looked very authentic. It failed as the sender's address was [email protected]. The Mailwasher has a button that shows the source of the message. Hidden in there you may find a dot RU or Russia. Or you may find a web address.

Strip out the suffix and look at the basic web address. I have found a gym in the US, lawyers in South America etc. Their servers have been penetrated.

Without doing anything send a phishing report. If you want to delete first try Mailwasher, it is freeware.
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