I received email from [email protected] and its a SPAM email. Email here: https://imgur.com/a/Pca2FaE
Has OzBargain Been Hacked? Received Spam Email
destination on 17/09/2021 - 10:53
Last edited 17/09/2021 - 12:21 by 1 other user
Last edited 17/09/2021 - 12:21 by 1 other user
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Right at destination.
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Email address has probably been spoofed (rather than hacked).
View Source or Show Original (Gmail) and you'll be shown the email headers. The email address is spoofed which you can see in the code.
"From" email addresses are not hard to spoof and such fake emails are blocked by any basic spam filter. If the email made it past your spam filter, I would be a bit more concerned.
As per neil's comment, View original message and check the header. We have implemented both SPF & DKIM on @ozbargain.com.au domain so Gmail should report in the header that the email isn't going through our email server, which then flagged as spam.
What about DMARC?
We do have DMARC but the opt out from the reporting emails because there are just too many people trying to spoof ozbargain.com.au emails.
Ozbargain is now a household name so I can understand why the spammers would use it.
This is what I found
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:40:20 +0000
To: XXX
From: Confirmation, Confirmation <[email protected]>
Subject: $ 94,486.73 has been received on your account-Confirm Payment ID: 19411685.
X-Mailer: 219085.9840616
Sender: <[email protected]>
List-Unsubscribe: <[email protected]>
X-IncomingHeaderCount: 11you are probably more interested in the 'Received' header lines that should show where the email originated
From: Confirmation, Confirmation <[email protected]>
Bingo!
List-Unsubscribe: <[email protected]>
lol
I received email from [email protected]
Nope.
To clarify @SF3's post: You received an email from [email protected] who is pretending to be [email protected]
Nope, the From header is totally in the Sender's control.
You got spam, mark it as such or if interested use https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/messageheader/
Damn received an email today from the same address.
Received a notification about a package from ozbargain today
I am receiving tons of junk email from "[email protected]" cannot stop them. Unsubscribing for 3 months now and I am just at my breaking point. Every hour I receive so many and in 24 hours…. It's a nightmare. Anyone has got an idea how to stop that?
Which email provider do you use? Most of them allow you to create a Filter to block or auto-delete all emails from a particular address.
On your registered email address on OzBargain, or on a different email address? We have received a few reports of spams from [email protected] this morning, mostly from Hotmail & Live.com.au email addresses.
Please note that OzBargain did not send those spam / phishing emails.
Yeah thanks. That's what i thought.
It was sent from [email protected]. I have blocked it for now. Hopefully i can still receive alerts :)All the emails from OzBargain are also from that address so it would effectively block all emails from OzBargain.
You'll still receive notification on the site though.
Yeah. Much spam from that address
Targeted.