{"id":19327,"date":"2020-05-12T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=19327"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:52:36","slug":"gmail-tip-how-to-find-the-real-sender-of-an-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/gmail-tip-how-to-find-the-real-sender-of-an-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail Tip: How to Find the Real Sender of An Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gmail Tip: How to Find the Real Sender of An Email<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you use Gmail and you receive a suspicious email, here is how you can find the real sender.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Open the suspicious email. Be careful not to click any links in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on the 3 vertical dots icon located to the right of the Reply button, then click “Show original” in the drop-down menu.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMake sure the “From” address and the “Reply to” address match.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Check that the address on the “Message-id” matches the “From” address domain.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the example above you can see that the email is an authentic email from Google.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s look at another example. Here is an example of a fake email telling us that our Google ads account is temporarily suspended.\u00a0 We can see the Message-ID shows the sending domain is google-adwords.fr\u00a0 and not google.com.\u00a0 Look closely at the highlighted items in the image below to see other indicators of a phishing email with a spoofed from address.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n(Click on the image above to see it full size.)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you click the button labeled “Download Original” the complete email headers are shown. The email headers give many clues that this email is fake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nClick on the image above to see a larger view.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now if <\/span>you have any questions about an email, you know how to find out if <\/span>it is genuine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Gmail Tip: How to Find the Real Sender of An Email If you use Gmail and you receive a suspicious email, here is how you can find the real sender.\u00a0 Open the suspicious email. Be careful not to click any links in it. Click on the 3 vertical dots icon located to the right of the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1751,3590,1656],"tags":[363,84,3919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19327"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19337,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327\/revisions\/19337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}