johnwhelan
Well-known member
A new email account is created using an almost identical name and this is used to send a "buy me an amazon gift card at Walmart" message.
It got picked up as suspect initially because Walmart doesn't operate in the country that the person from whom the message was supposed to be from lives.
On closer inspection Postbox displayed a different name on the suspect email, one was a shortened version of the christian name than messages from the real person so first I assumed one of the characters has been replaced with a very similar looking one from the unicode side of things. It did pass all the Gmail spam checks.
Cheerio John
It got picked up as suspect initially because Walmart doesn't operate in the country that the person from whom the message was supposed to be from lives.
On closer inspection Postbox displayed a different name on the suspect email, one was a shortened version of the christian name than messages from the real person so first I assumed one of the characters has been replaced with a very similar looking one from the unicode side of things. It did pass all the Gmail spam checks.
Cheerio John