jim tate wrote: > I have been recieveing Bogus email's to sign onto to my bank account, so > someone can get my userid and password. So have I. Plus include bogus e-mails claiming to be AMEX, Home Depot, PayPal, etc... > My Bank say's these are bogus email's and not to respond to them. Listen to them. They are correct. > I have been recieveing them in Mozilla mail. Shouldn't matter what MUA you are using. > How can I tell where these email will return to , should I reply or > respond to info requested. I wouldn't reply. It's probably forged anyway. > There has got to be a way to back track. Check the e-mail headers and find the open relay that sent these e-mails. Then report this open relay to the ISP that owns the netblock. Good luck! A lot of these so called open relay IP addresses are the "throw away" variety. Used only once. Also, check the html code of the e-mail. Most reference images from your bank's website, but contain a redirect to some web server that actually captures your information. Again, try to report this website to the owning ISP. > I hope I can get the linux community help me to track down > the low life crooks. It's easy to track down and report where these e-mails came from. The hard part is getting the owning ISP to do anything about it. ISP's probably receive hundreds (if not thousands) of these complaints a day. BTW: I phoned up my grandmother and educated her on this new breed of spam (identity theft). Steve Cowles
