[PLUG] Is there a russian romance scam?

Alex Young alexander.young at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 15:24:42 UTC 2011


On Mar 26, 2011, at 6:10 AM, "Michael C. Robinson"
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:

> The headers of the last email I received follow.  Anyone see anything
> useful here?  I resolved 76.13.13.92 and got what appears to be a yahoo
> address, but I don't think that means anything really.
>
> Return-path: <fili_olga at yahoo.com>
> X-original-to: deemcr at robinson-west.com
> Delivered-to: deemcr at robinson-west.com
> Received: from web.robinson-west.com (web.robinson-west.com
> [192.168.5.1]) by goose.robinson-west.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id
> 8E61146AC1 for <deemcr at robinson-west.com>; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:03:24
> -0700 (PDT)
> Received: from smtp109.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
> (smtp109.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.92]) by web.robinson-west.com
> (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B5C1BC028 for <deemcr at robinson-west.com>; Thu,
> 24 Mar 2011 10:01:21 -0700 (PDT)
> Received: (qmail 40826 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2011 17:02:26

Looks like you aren't using TLS, that would be a great way to improve
your mail security.

Oh, and it also looks like you received some spam.  I'd delete it.


-Alex



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