Verify source of an email address using Iconix eMail ID
Looking for a free email verification program to protect yourself against spam emails pretending to be from major companies like Paypal, Amazon, eBay, etc? Unfortunately, there are always malicious people out there trying to trick people into entering sensitive financial information into fake copies of major web sites.
I myself have gotten many emails from Paypal, Bank of America, CitiBank and several other companies stating that some information was out of date and I needed to click on a link to fill in the missing information! Most of these emails were exact copies of the real emails sent out by these companies.
The link you click on, however, takes you to a site that looks just like the real site, but is being loaded from a rouge server somewhere else in the world. Sometimes it’s even impossible for me to tell these emails and websites apart from the real ones, so I always make sure to open my browser manually and type in the web address to visit the site.
However, if you tend to click on links in your email anyway, you can check out a free program that will guarantee that an email is coming from the company it claims.
Iconix eMail ID works with any company that has registered with it, which currently include more than 400 major companies like Paypal, eBay, Amazon, Expedia, Citibank and lots more.
Once you install the application on your computer, it will automatically verify email messages that are sent from one of the known senders with a small icon that will either show it is valid or fake.
The program follows a three step process to verify and email address: first it authenticates the message by checking domain keys and sender ids, which is used by companies like Cisco and Microsoft.
Next, the email sender is checked against the list of registered senders and if everything matches, then a Truemark icon is displayed next to the email in your inbox.
The cool thing is that the program works with many email services, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotemail, MSN Hotmail, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, AOL webmail, and Earthlink! It’ll even work if you have configured Gmail in Outlook 2003/2007.
It’s a small program and it’s completely free! Even if you are great at spotting spam emails or if you manually type in web addresses like I do, it’s still a great service in case you get an email from a service you haven’t used before and may not figure out the trick in time. Highly recommend this program!
Note that if you use your main email account to sign up for lots of stuff online, this can make it hard to separate the spam from real email. Use a disposable email service like MintEmail for signing up to newletters, etc. Enjoy!
I myself have gotten many emails from Paypal, Bank of America, CitiBank and several other companies stating that some information was out of date and I needed to click on a link to fill in the missing information! Most of these emails were exact copies of the real emails sent out by these companies.
The link you click on, however, takes you to a site that looks just like the real site, but is being loaded from a rouge server somewhere else in the world. Sometimes it’s even impossible for me to tell these emails and websites apart from the real ones, so I always make sure to open my browser manually and type in the web address to visit the site.
However, if you tend to click on links in your email anyway, you can check out a free program that will guarantee that an email is coming from the company it claims.
Iconix eMail ID works with any company that has registered with it, which currently include more than 400 major companies like Paypal, eBay, Amazon, Expedia, Citibank and lots more.
Once you install the application on your computer, it will automatically verify email messages that are sent from one of the known senders with a small icon that will either show it is valid or fake.
The program follows a three step process to verify and email address: first it authenticates the message by checking domain keys and sender ids, which is used by companies like Cisco and Microsoft.
Next, the email sender is checked against the list of registered senders and if everything matches, then a Truemark icon is displayed next to the email in your inbox.
The cool thing is that the program works with many email services, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotemail, MSN Hotmail, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, AOL webmail, and Earthlink! It’ll even work if you have configured Gmail in Outlook 2003/2007.
It’s a small program and it’s completely free! Even if you are great at spotting spam emails or if you manually type in web addresses like I do, it’s still a great service in case you get an email from a service you haven’t used before and may not figure out the trick in time. Highly recommend this program!
Note that if you use your main email account to sign up for lots of stuff online, this can make it hard to separate the spam from real email. Use a disposable email service like MintEmail for signing up to newletters, etc. Enjoy!
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