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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Sample Comments

mikkom Oct 1, 2015 View on HN

It's extemely simple to fake the sender of email. That's what probably happened.

trumped May 24, 2018 View on HN

How did they receive the conversation? email? was the receiving address similar to some other address (the real recipient)?

epylar May 20, 2013 View on HN

I see email spoofing being a problem with this.

aaron_m04 Feb 9, 2019 View on HN

Just a guess: the author could not be sure that the email address legitimately belongs to the scammer. It could be a hacked account.

Too Dec 25, 2020 View on HN

Can't believe email clients still allow such basic tricks to not be spotted instantly.

philwelch Nov 12, 2010 View on HN

Email addresses can be spoofed.

killingtime74 Jun 25, 2024 View on HN

It's not snooping btw, this is information the sender provided. Would be hard to deliver the mail otherwise....

devops000 Sep 5, 2021 View on HN

How they could have such emails?

judk Mar 21, 2015 View on HN

Gmail controls this permission per sender. Nobody savvy enough to read Wired would use a mail system that was broken in the described way.

TheBozzCL Feb 5, 2025 View on HN

Are you sure they’re not just spoofing the address? Check the email headers.