Email Fraud Alert received from: Mark
I recently received an email with this subject line: Your unread messages will be deleted in a few days and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
You haven’t been to Facebook for a few days, and a lot happened while you were away.
Your unread messages will be deleted in a few days
View messages
Go to Facebook
This message was sent to mark@xxxxxxxxx.co.za. If you don’t want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe.
Facebook, Inc. Attention: Department 415 P.O Box 10005 Palo Alto CA 94303
The above email was sent by “Facebook Updates” from this email address: llxyqowdqkmcmnn@mail2alec.com
I, Mark, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Facebook Updates”:
The format of this message was in the classic Facebook format – very clever but for the fact that it wasn’t to my e-mail that I registered on Facebook with and from a dodgy address.
Excellent try,though.
Some header info:
From: Facebook Updates
Subject: Your unread messages will be deleted in a few days
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID – [47 12] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain – mail2alec.com