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Old May 24, 2012, 12:30 pm
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Originally Posted by Centurion
WARNING...I know most of you know to be careful but recently I have received several very good Amex Phishing emails so be careful. They contain the exact same Amex logo, etc. I have cut and pasted the email but the very real looking logo and format were lost in the copy paste but here it is.......
For all the non geeks out there, you can check the email header, which allows you to trace ips. Also, it is always important to check domain names as well because scammers will have domain names such as americanexpress.axp.biz but that is just a subdomain name, however, it looks legit to the regular consumer.

You can always do a reverse lookup on ip addresses and domain names.

Hope this helps.

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