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georgec
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2011 4:24 pm    Post subject: Scam or valid email? Reply with quote

I am getting several emails from linkedIn and suspect that these may be scams! The mail server has a different domain as you can see in the header below. This may be normal but very unusual.

Delivered-To: xxxxxxx@gmail.com
Received: by 10.229.223.202 with SMTP id il10cs136628qcb;
Wed, 11 May 2011 06:01:21 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.217.2.202 with SMTP id p52mr5881383wes.28.1305118880406;
Wed, 11 May 2011 06:01:20 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <bo-bx3w8qsbgwp9m3au67j9jq7z4z10tq@b.em.linkedin.com>
Received: from mta413.k.cheetahmail.com (mta413.k.cheetahmail.com [208.49.63.139])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id 18si344365wet.18.2011.05.11.06.01.19;
Wed, 11 May 2011 06:01:20 -0700 (PDT)


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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like spam. Even though the return path is correct I can see that the actual sending SMTP was mta413.k.cheetahmail.com. They are an email marketing company....allegedly.

I checked an email I received from Linked-in and they add their own customer X-header.

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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Fire Ant for your feedback! It looks like that this Cheetah is doing advertising campaigns for LinkedIn then Smile
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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No wonder why we're getting so much LinkedIn spam emails - now LinkedIn raises IPO share price !!!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zeus use LinkedIn for send spam e-mails, i think it is spam.
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