I found this to be interesting. It's a quiz where you can look at various real looking emails and see if you can spot the ones that are trying to get your information. I admit that several of them fooled me, and I consider myself pretty savy as far as email scams. Once you take the quiz it will also show you how to spot real and fake emails.

http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html

my results are worse than my last math test :-)

Frank

Not too bad, I got 70% right, and that was breezing through the "e-mails" I got bored toward the end.

I was looking for stubble,then I realized it was
FAKE E mails,not fake FE mails.
Doh!

Oh that's REALLY bad. :-)

Well that test was sort of unfair because if you don't do business with any of those place they would all be fraud

80% ..Yet unless I ask for an Email..I dont even open them.

90%, but then again, with my email filters I only receive e-mail which I have rquested in the first place. If it can't get through my frontdoor, it's not supposed to be in...

Cheers
Henk

The best way to find out if an emial is a spoof is to open the header (some times called Message Source) in the email and it should look something like this:

Return-path: [email protected]
Envelope-to: ********@********.co.uk
Delivery-date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:43:32 +0000

As you can see the Return-path is from paypal.com

No spoof email would have this, even if the senders email address apears to be PayPal or whom ever.

An ebay demand for invoice payment came through today, which is odd as I have not sold on ebay for 3 months, so cheacking the header, the return path was "Return-path: [email protected] ". As you can see the email did not come from ebay, plus the HTML code was so wrong it did not display correctly in the email. So it's a spoof and has been reported to ebay.

Hope this is of some help

80%

looks like i'm average... 80%... but i marked 2 correct ones as fake so no loss being overly careful...


LOL

70% with the errors being on the conservative side of thinking the e-mails were phishing.

Only got a 90. Have to buckle down and study some more.

I got a 60! Man I suck! :-) time to crack open those books (emails?) and study some more!