Word: headers
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...first" from" line. There are generally two "from" lines in the header. The second "from" line can be easily modified. Check to make sure both "from" lines indicate the same origin for the message...
...Apparenlty-To:" header. If both "from" lines are consistent, check to make sure there is no header "Apparently-To:". If there is, this is an almost sure sign that the e-mail is fake...
User can send fake e-mail by altering amessage's "header," which usually identifies thesender. Altered messages can appear to be frompresident Clinton or President Neil L. Rudenstine...
During a Harvard Computer Society seminar lastmonth called" Avoiding Big Brother," PhilCartagena '96, a society members, said that byusing mail reading programs that allow users tosee the whole mail header--such as the "mail" or"elm readers--students can sometimes tell theauthentic-students can sometimes tell theauthentic from the fake. Full headers generallyidentify the computer from which the mail wassent...
...contrast, " pine," the program favored bymany undergraduates, allows users to view most,but not all, of the mail header...