[LINK] Message from ASIC or not?

[Jan Whitaker]

Linkers,

I just renewed my business name because ASIC is now doing it instead 
of the state of Victoria. That all appears legitimate based on a 
paper letter I received from them. I did all the payments etc. online 
as instructed.

Today I got an email from them (??) that I'm always leary of because 
there are so many spoofs. So instead I went to the ASIC account and 
there are no records of messages being sent to me. So I looked at the 
full header of the email I received (below) and it appears to be 
coming not from Australia, which is always a clue that something 
isn't legit. HOWEVER, given the amount of outsourcing for email that 
is done by government agencies today (I went a few rounds with 
AUSTRAC about this for a couple years, as well as advising other govt 
agencies about this as a problem), it's hard to know what is real and 
what isn't.

The embedded links are using what appear to be ASIC addresses for the 
hidden links.

I've sent all the info to ASIC along with a question about their 
practices, which was not easy, I'll tell ya. They won't accept a 
plain text message and only allow 2000 characters in their message 
field. They also do NOT accept emails themselves!

Jan

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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit at janwhitaker.com
blog: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/
business: http://www.janwhitaker.com

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