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Each 1USA customer has the ability to set their email account to loose, medium or tight settings.
Here are some examples of email scams received at our spamtrap accounts:

  

This one is very obvious as a fake - because:
 - the From-Address said FedEx
 - the Mail-From address was not FedEx
 - the Reply-Address was not FedEx
 - the Bounce-Address was not FedEx
 - the Sending Server's name was not FedEx
 - the Hello was not FedEx.  A "hello" occurs for each incoming email.  When an email arrives, our 1USA mail server answers "Hello, this is 1USA.  You have a message to deliver here?"  and the sending server identifies itself with an ACK (acknowledgement) then begins to transfer the email file.

During this transmission, 1USA's mail server can read the message's headers... and has the itelligence to say "OK, it looks legitimate" or it can perform various other functions to either verify the sender or reject the email.
In the case of faked companies like FedEx, airlines, ebay, paypal, banks, etc. we normally reject the email back to the sender if the email is 'certainly' not from a legitimate source.

 

Here is an example of a typical Fake WellsFargo Bank email.
The yellow area at the top displays what normal people will see.
The [spam10] spamgrade is added by the 1USA mail servers - which is an approximate severity level of that particular email.
Notice that NONE of the other header fields are legitimate.  This one is likely from a hacked email account on a hacked server.
 

 

Can Comcast accounts get hacked also?  Yes to that question.
If you read only the message body... notice that it does not tell you which account on which server they are talking about.
... and if you are inquisitive and click on the "ClickHere" link... your computer gets automatically infected.
The scammers are depending on you not knowing much about computers...
The scammers put words into the message body to throw you off...
BUT the scammers cannot hide their identity to the 1USA mail servers.

 

The clues on this one show:
 - the From address "AT&T" is faked easily.
 - the MailFrom address shows a fake person @Comcast.net
 - the name of the mail server that sent this one to us is not AT&T
So why would you even click on a link in the message body & potentially get your computer infected?

 

This is a typical Hacked Yahoo account.  
The purpose of showing this to you is to let you know that it's dangerous to be inquisitive and click.
In order to help protect our customers, 1USA's mail server has the ability to visit the websites mentioned in an email... and if those links goto foreign countries or contain a virus - even after a Page Refresh or a Forward, YOU don't receive the email.  The email is quarantined.

The email addresses in the To line have been removed.