[LINK] Message from ASIC or not?

[Scott Howard]

Domain Name: SGE.NET
Registrant:
Verizon Business Australia Pty Ltd
   243 Northbourne Ave
   Lyneham
   Canberra, ACT 2602
   AU

All of the (public) IP addresses listed are in Australia, and are
registered to Verizon Business.

I would have no doubt this is legitimate, with Verizon acting as a outgoing
mail gateway for ASIC.

To remove any doubt, lets look who handles ASIC's inbound email :

$ dig mx asic.gov.au +short
10 asic-in-157.sge.net.

So SGE/Verizon handle their incoming email, leaving zero doubt that your
email is legitimate.

 Scott





On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> >Return-path: <ecs.no-reply at asic.gov.au>
> >Envelope-to: jwhit at janwhitaker.com
> >Delivery-date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:18:08 -0400
> >Received: from okinawa.sge.net ([152.91.65.130]:25116)
> >         by pearl.host-care.com with esmtps
> (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256)
> >         (Exim 4.80)
> >         (envelope-from <ecs.no-reply at asic.gov.au>)
> >         id 1Ucj4Z-0007Oe-F6
> >         for jwhit at janwhitaker.com; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:18:06 -0400
> >Received: from valencia.bru.gwy (unknown [172.30.65.65])
> >         by okinawa.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE049181CB
> >         for <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:14 +0000
> (UTC)
> >Received: from valencia.bru.gwy (unknown [127.0.0.1])
> >         by IMSVA80 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9151730799
> >         for <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:14 +0000
> (GMT)
> >Received: from quark1.sge.net (unknown [152.91.9.198])
> >         by valencia.bru.gwy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D70B306B0
> >         for <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:14 +0000
> (GMT)
> >Received: from mailgate2.asic.gov.au (unknown [10.11.2.20])
> >         by quark1.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDAB367C39
> >         for <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:17:13 +1000
> (EST)
>
>
> Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
> jwhit at janwhitaker.com
> blog: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/
> business: http://www.janwhitaker.com
>
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