Risk management: Email
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Overview
Reading and understanding the source IP address
On IP addresses
Further reading:
IP addresses and how to decode them
- Once you have the source IP of the email you can investigate this information using a tool like to one provided by Melissa
- To do that you should enter the IP address in the corresponding field and click on "submit".
- You will get the following information:
http://www.proz.com/file_resources/other/cba0130e90d829a532f25bbbb47e5218_Melissa_Nigeria.JPG
Getting the source IP address of an incoming email
Emails received through your ProZ.com profile
- When you receive an email through your ProZ.com profile, the header of the message includes the following information:
- When the sender was not logged-in:
You have been sent a message via ProZ.com. Author: XXXX [NOTE: The author is not a registered ProZ.com user or was not logged in when sending this message.] Author's IP address: 82.128.21.90 Message type: Job-related
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