Are emails with @e. safe?

purplevamp

I enter a lot of comps and do surveys so expect a good amount of emails each day, including spam, which I normally just delete. However a lot of emails recently have @e. in them, eg news@e.magic.co.uk . Are these emails ok? I've never noticed the "e" in them before and some do look a bit iffy.

I have opened some but haven't clicked on any links to my knowledge.

matttye

The @e. doesn't mean anything special, so treat them with the same caution as you would any other e-mail.

You should never assume any e-mail is safe.

purplevamp

Thanks mattye. I feel better about opening them now. I usually click a link from this website :money:for my comps even if I do trust the email.

esuhl

The email address [EMAIL="news@e.magic.co.uk"]news@e.magic.co.uk[/EMAIL] uses the domain magic.co.uk. Any preceding names separated with dots would be sub-domains on magic.co.uk.

So, if you trust magic.co.uk, then it's also safe to trust e.magic.co.uk (or anything-else.magic.co.uk).

A common trick by spammers/scammers is to set up a subdomain on their own dodgy domain with a trustworthy sounding name. So, if you trust magic.co.uk, a scammer might send you a link to http://magic.co.uk.malwaredomain.com. If you look at the first bit of the address, you see "magic.co.uk" and think that all is well, not realising that actually you are connecting to malwaredomain.com. It can be very easy to miss if the address is shortened so you only see the first bit (e.g. if it is shown as "http://magic.co.uk..." to save space).

cookie365

And another common scammer trick is to take the really useful ability to turn plain English sentences into links and abuse it to make dodgy sites look legit - lovelyandsafe.com

Make sure your browser and email client show you the real link when you hover over it so you always know where youre going.