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Why am I receiving spam from "DomainKeys" verified accounts in my email? I have up till now tended to trust the "DomainKeys verified" tag that comes with some emails. If an email has this tag beside the address, I tend to give it a certain amount of trust because I was under the impression that Yahoo was vouching for them.
I received an email today that said the following:
From: "Lily Tran" <[email protected]>
get in bed with me at h o t c o r a . c o m
The user had a DomainKeys Verified tag beside the address... and if this was not an obvious advertisement, but instead, a spoof of an email my bank, credit agency or magazine subscription was sending me, I very well may have just clicked away on any link offered.
The point I am trying to make here is this: I have up until trusted Yahoo and the DomainKeys Verified system they have going for their users, but if this system is already being compromised for silly things like porn advertisements, what is to stop the serious criminals from manipulating this as well?
So much for safe emailing from Yahoo... Guess I will have to return to the days of taking every email I get in my Yahoo account with a grain of salt.
I received an email today that said the following:
From: "Lily Tran" <[email protected]>
get in bed with me at h o t c o r a . c o m
The user had a DomainKeys Verified tag beside the address... and if this was not an obvious advertisement, but instead, a spoof of an email my bank, credit agency or magazine subscription was sending me, I very well may have just clicked away on any link offered.
The point I am trying to make here is this: I have up until trusted Yahoo and the DomainKeys Verified system they have going for their users, but if this system is already being compromised for silly things like porn advertisements, what is to stop the serious criminals from manipulating this as well?
So much for safe emailing from Yahoo... Guess I will have to return to the days of taking every email I get in my Yahoo account with a grain of salt.