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Old 02-13-2008, 09:43 PM
Scam Fighter Scam Fighter is offline
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Pd - just because it comes from a yahoo.it address doesn't necessarily mean that it's actually from Italy. ANYONE can sign up for a foreign yahoo address, regardless of where they're actually located. Lots of Nigerian scammers use yahoo.uk or yahoo.fr to make it appear they are from the UK or France, when they are sitting there in a sweaty internet cafe in Lagos, Nigeria.

There IS a way to actually tell where the email came from. If you post the entire email header here, I can do an IP analysis on it and at least tell you where the internet service provider is located. If you don't know how to find the complete header, look for a tiny link in the email that says "Full headers" -on yahoo it's in the way lower right corner, or in gmail it's at the top right of the body text and it says "Show Details". Click that link and you get a series of what looks like gobbledygook. Post that here and I'll tell you where this person is REALLY emailing from.

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