[Hidden-tech] gmail "quirks"

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:46:59 -0500 Gyepi SAM <gyepi-hidden-tec at praxis-sw.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:31:57AM -0500, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography wrote:
> >    1) I've been receiving "tom.adams at gmail.com"'s email sporadically
> >    over the last 4 years or so. I've actually emailed him before to see
> >    what's going on & looked into gmail's help but they basically say
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> Gmail does not recognize dots within usernames, so emails to 'tom.adams at gmail.com'
> will go to the account 'tomadams at gmail.com', which explains why you're getting
> his emails.
> See this page for details: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313
> 
> I would guess that his real address is not 'tom.adams at gmail.com' but
> something quite similar and easy to mistype.
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> As others have mentioned, the email from desk at gmail.com is phishing spam.
> Aside from the fact that no real admin would ever ask you for
> that information and that you can see the true source of the message
> in the email headers, you can also look at the link they want you to click
> and see that it doesn't go anywhere near the site they want you to think
> it's going to. Really good phishers go to some trouble to camouflage the
> domain, but you can still tell. BTW, some email readers make this easier than others.

Phishers make use of clever HTML to hide what they are doing, including
including the images of the site they are spoofing.  If you turn off
HTML rendering in your E-Mail client (a *strongly* recomended practice),
much of the camouflage used by phishers is eliminated.

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