Best way to check if mail is legit
Spam filters are great but they can never filter out everything. Sometimes I need to check. I know that merely opening a message will notify the sender it is a "good email" and someone opens it.
Sometimes merely moving the cursor down marks the message read.
1) Is that just an internal marker for me, or does the sender get notified?
When I am suspicious, I click on View/Message/Default Headers.
There I check the domain names.
2) Is there something else I should look for in this section?
Then in View/Message/Raw Search
I search for “http" and “ip”
Essentially, I look for anything but the domain name. I look for the use of zero instead of the letter o, etc. I lookup ip addresses using whois. It seems that every link must have "ip" or "http."
Is there something else to look at here?
If suspicious, I go directly to the phone I have on file or to the website without opening the mail or clicking on anything. So far, this has avoided problems, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something else in my reviews. I know the general advice, about avoiding spam, but at least once a day there is a questionable one.
MacBook Air
