British Airways Warns of Email Scam
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PostPosted: Thu, Feb 27 2014, 9:54 am EST    Post subject: British Airways Warns of Email Scam Reply with quote

I got this scam email yesterday. Don't click the links in the email.

British Airways is warning about a spam email going around pretending to be from the airline. The email comes from the email address BC.CustSrvcs@email.ba.com and claims to be a confirmation for an upcoming flight. The email contains links to confirm the flight which are being used to collect personal information about consumers. The airline has received a number of complaints about the phishing message.

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PostPosted: Thu, Feb 27 2014, 12:45 pm EST    Post subject: Re: British Airways Warns of Email Scam Reply with quote

BTW, the ID and address in the "From:" field of an email cannot be trusted. A sender can set it to anything (just like you can put a bogus address on the sender's address area of a USPS envelope).

A trick to hide the recipients of an email is by using a generic "To:" address; the address of each recipient is set in the "BCC:" field. A recipient won't see the BCC field.
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