How can this be?

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:12 am

Date: 5 May 2007
From: Mr Geoff Starr foods company [email protected]
Reply To: [email protected]
IP: 196.201.152.40
Subject: JOB OFFER
FROM THE DESK OF
Mr. Geoff Starr
C E O,
GEORGE WESTON FOODS COMPANY PLC,
AUSTRALIA.

Australians will recognise this Company name. They do operate in Britain and US in joint ventures already.
The email address - Australia
IP address - Lebanon

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:09 am

What do you mean by 'how can this be'?
It's just another scam letter.
Both of the addresses in your post are known scams.
Try Google.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:26 am

My question was, and I think I now know the answer, was how an Australian email address had an IP from Lebanon. The address is Australian, but it was sent from Lebanon. Next time I'll think before I post. I intend to bait the Australian address just to see what it's all about.

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

There was another thread with this question somewhere (I don't remember which one). Check the header with a different header tool, you'll see that Lebanon is really Nigeria. Wink

(its through cobranet or something like that)

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:35 pm

Google [email protected] and you'll find that it's a well known "Sent from" address for spam emails (probably spoofed as austrailia.com is the domain of the official Australian tourism board). That's also why a different return address is given.
The sammer has taken the time to select a yahoo.com.au addy to make it look like the reply is also Australian related.
Of course, anybody - regardless of location - can set up a yahoo.com.au addy. But then you probably knew that... Wink

/EDIT: The real George Weston Food is here: www.gwf.com.au

Another interesting link related to this from Project Honeypot: Clicky!

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:50 pm

Well, thanks to the last two posts I am now more knowledgeable than I was before. This is the absolute beauty of this forum. I can't wait to get an email reply and check it's IP.