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    Default How far does your email travel

    My wife (and I) like many internet users have a gmail account.
    We were discussing email and the dramatic increase in the delivery of malicious emails that have been targeting Australian inboxes over the past few weeks.
    Whilst there is no single email I could like to highlight at this time, the following are examples that have been used to encourage a user to click on links within the email.

    ASIC - Company renewal
    AFP - traffic fine, court notice
    Energy Australia - bill/invoice
    e-Toll - toll notice, "Road Service Notification"
    eBay - invoice for eBay purchases
    AusPost - Delivery notice
    OneDrive - "View in OneDrive"

    During this discussion my wife asked, innocently enough, "How far does email actually travel"
    If she, through her google account, sends an email to me, in physical terms where does the email go?
    and how do the people spoofing the email actually obtain hers or mine email address in the first place.

    I couldn't answer her question
    Can any one hazard a guess??

    Cheers
    In hindsight I should have posted my Facebook status as: "I've blown the head gasket on my 1997 XR3i" rather than "I've just buggered a 14 year old escort".
    The police still haven't seen the funny side, my lap top's been confiscated and the wife has gone off to her mum's.



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    If you look at the full email headers you can usually see the ip addresses of the various servers along the route that the email has taken. When a from address is spoofed it will usually be only the name that is incorrect. Usually you can trace the ip where it is from, but it will usually not do you much good, as the machine will be part of a botnet or hacked or some poorly configured email server allowing unsecured relaying or any of many other reasons. As to your email addresses, sometimes spammers or scammers buy lists. Sometimes you may have visited a site which harvested your email address, or filled in a form. A friend or business who has your email address may have been hacked. You may have entered a competition online or at a shopping centre and given your email address. Sometimes they simply send to random names at pariicular domains. The methods are too numerous to mention, and I certainly don't know them all. "And, of course, the spammers and scammers are alwsys innovating.
    Last edited by DB44; 21-09-17 at 12:23 AM.

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