Thread: Paypal users Beware!!!
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Re: Paypal users Beware!!!
One thing I have noticed that these spammers/phisers don't do is spoof the origination IP address in the headers of the email.

What I do when in doubt is find the origin IP address in the e-mail header, then do a IP whois lookup for it.

The IP lookup should show the same name as the service, if it doesn't then it is highly probably to be a spam/scam/phising e-mail.

This is something I learned to do many years ago for my profession, before all these anti-spam tools were invented to be relatively sure the e-mail was valid.
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