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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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2004-04-15

      mailping

      0.0.4

MAILPING-STORE(1)						     Mailping							 MAILPING-STORE(1)

NAME
mailping-store - store email from stdin to a mailping incoming maildir SYNOPSIS
mailping-store DESCRIPTION
mailping-store reads an email from standard input and writes it into a maildir chosen according to following logic: 1. If EXTENSION is not set, select Maildir. 2. If EXTENSION is set, ensure its value is safe to use, and select EXTENSION/incoming. mailping-store is usually run from a .forward file, and thus the filenames above are relative to the home directory of the account in question. Normal use Normally, mailping-store is used to ease the setup of new circuits to probe from mailping-cron. This is done with a system account mailping using <mailping@yourhost.example.com> as the from address, and <mailping+circuitname@yourhost.example.com> (or some remote address aliased to that) as the to address. In fact, these are the default values for from and to, so you can just skip creating those configuration files. This allows adding new test circuits without any changes to the email configuration. FILES
/var/lib/mailping/state/circuit/incoming Maildir to store the email to. /var/lib/mailping/state/Maildir/ Maildir to store the email to, if no extension was given. ENVIRONMENT
MAILPING_STATEDIR Override the location of the state directory. Circuit states are stored in the state subdirectory of this directory, in subdirectories named after the circuit name. Default: /var/lib/mailping EXTENSION Name of the current circuit to store the mail for. SEE ALSO
mailping-cron(1), mailping-success(1), mailping-latency(1) AUTHOR
Tommi Virtanen <tv@havoc.fi> Havoc Consulting Author. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Havoc Consulting mailping 0. 2004-04-15 MAILPING-STORE(1)