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08-11-2011, 10:38 AM
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Scarecrow
Join Date: May 2003
Location: bedford ma
Posts: 637
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Enlighten me John, what is a "spoof"?
I'm technologically challenged, so pretend you're talking to a slow 5 year old, please.  |
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08-11-2011, 11:09 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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A "Spoof" in email is like real life when something masquerades as something else. Email spoofing commonly has one entity sending out emails as if they were a different entity. For example, I can go on one of my machines and send you an email that would show up as "GOD@heaven.org" but more accurately I can send an email to "Check this out" to 10 of your friends and the return email address they would see would be yours. So basically I am masquerading as your email account
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08-11-2011, 11:17 AM
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Scarecrow
Join Date: May 2003
Location: bedford ma
Posts: 637
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So, by not having an Email account, I'm safe from this sort of hi jinx .
Sometimes it's good to be a dinosaur.
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08-11-2011, 01:33 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Skippy,
Don't know what meta data is.... but here is the body of the emails sent to my contacts.
OMG! Don’t waste your time searching! Everything you need is here!. Canadian Neighbor Pharmacy
http://bakaneko.fr/sites.friend.php?jtigoogleId=68in7
Does this help? Only went to my brother and sister, as they are only contacts I had re-loaded since it first happened a few weeks ago. Also changed my sign in password, although it is a low security PW. |
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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08-11-2011, 01:38 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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The least they could do for using my address is to send some free viagra......
I would love to find the hijacker and eff with their inbox.....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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08-11-2011, 07:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: A village some where
Posts: 3,436
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Well put sir!
Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
A "Spoof" in email is like real life when something masquerades as something else. Email spoofing commonly has one entity sending out emails as if they were a different entity. For example, I can go on one of my machines and send you an email that would show up as "GOD@heaven.org" but more accurately I can send an email to "Check this out" to 10 of your friends and the return email address they would see would be yours. So basically I am masquerading as your email account
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Nightfighter, i sent you a PM
Meta data, in a nut shell is the history of any document, another words when you send it to me its tagged, i send it to someone and its tagged, all documents have this, windows has build in some meta data stripping software ( well was suppose to in vista ) however once it hits the inet, its all traceable, unless proxied correctly. |
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08-11-2011, 10:17 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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One TOR closes, another TOR opens  |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-12-2011, 08:09 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: A village some where
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
One TOR closes, another TOR opens |
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