Email Spoofing
Commenters debate the ease of spoofing email sender addresses and how this likely explains seemingly authentic but suspicious emails in a reported story, recommending header checks and noting persistent email authentication flaws.
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It's extemely simple to fake the sender of email. That's what probably happened.
How did they receive the conversation? email? was the receiving address similar to some other address (the real recipient)?
I see email spoofing being a problem with this.
Just a guess: the author could not be sure that the email address legitimately belongs to the scammer. It could be a hacked account.
Can't believe email clients still allow such basic tricks to not be spotted instantly.
Email addresses can be spoofed.
It's not snooping btw, this is information the sender provided. Would be hard to deliver the mail otherwise....
How they could have such emails?
Gmail controls this permission per sender. Nobody savvy enough to read Wired would use a mail system that was broken in the described way.
Are you sure they’re not just spoofing the address? Check the email headers.