Re:A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university
by eswat on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:54PM
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In particular, this kind of low-tech spoofing could have been mitigated if the email client had highlighted the fact that the sender’s “name” was nearly identical to the sending address, and therefore likely a phishing email.
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Re:A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university
by deepGem on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:05PM
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This seems quite simple to accomplish - compare the name and email address in the email header and flag based on even regex matches/mismatches. Perhaps a Chrome plugin for gmail to test out ?