[LINK] Message from ASIC or not?

[Jim Birch]

...those who know not, and know not they know not...

...can drive you nuts.

Jim


On 16 May 2013 10:12, Dr Bob Jansen <bob.jansen at turtlelane.com.au> wrote:

> Scott's information and how he got it shows that you have to be a techie
> to work these things out. How does a non-techie fare? I have had several
> instances similar to Jan's and find the best solution is to ring the
> company concerned.
>
> Bobj
>
> Dr Bob Jansen
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>
> On 16/05/2013, at 9:33, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or
> >> sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
> >> ~Madeline L'Engle, writer
> >>
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