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Old 11-13-2008
MobileMe: Identifying fraudulent "phishing" email
"Phishing" (also known as "carding" or "spoofing") refers to email that attempts to fraudulently acquire personal information from you, such as your account password or credit card information. On the surface, the email may appear to be from a legitimate company or individual, but it's not.As a general rule, never send credit card information, account passwords, or extensive personal information in an email unless you verify that the recipient is who they claim to be. Many companies have policies that state they will never solicit such information from customers by email.If you do receive email that you're not sure is valid, here are some tips that can help you determine its legitimacy.

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mail::verify

Mail::Verify(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Mail::Verify(3pm)

NAME

       Mail::Verify - Utility to verify an email address

SYNOPSIS

	   use Mail::Verify;

DESCRIPTION

       "Mail::Verify" provides a function CheckAddress function for verifying email addresses.	First the syntax of the email address is checked,
       then it verifies that there is at least one valid MX server accepting email for the domain.  Using Net::DNS and IO::Socket a list of MX
       records (or, falling back on a hosts A record) are checked to make sure at least one SMTP server is accepting connections.

ERRORS

       Here are a list of return codes and what they mean:

       0      The email address appears to be valid.

       1      No email address was supplied.

       2      There is a syntaxical error in the email address.

       3      There are no DNS entries for the host in question (no MX records or A records).

       4      There are no live SMTP servers accepting connections for this email address.

EXAMPLES

       This example shows obtaining an email address from a form field and verifying it.

	 use CGI qw/:standard/;
	 use Mail::Verify;
	 my $q = new CGI;
	 [...]
	 my $email = $q->param("emailaddr");
	 my $email_ck = Mail::Verify::CheckAddress( $email );
	 if( $email_ck ) {
	     print '<h1>Form input error: Invalid email address.</h1>';
	 }
	 [...]

perl v5.8.8							    2002-06-09							 Mail::Verify(3pm)