Re: [MlMt] Skull 💀 emoji in the From header

[Guillaume Barrette]

Hi,

  Actually it's a MailMate feature:
```
Whenever the name part of an address header contains a @ then it’s 
replaced with a skull (💀). That should at least make the user aware 
of simple attempts to spoof an address header.
```

Reference: https://blog.freron.com/2017/email-spoofing/

--
Guillaume

On 30 Jan 2021, at 16:38, m...@rhp.tw wrote:

Sometimes I will receive an email that have the skull emoji (💀) in 
the **From** header.  At first I thought this might be due to some 
autocorrect/auto-substitution that is enabled on my computer  (like 
turning a smiley emoticon to an emoji), but that does not seem to be 
the case. I also looked at the raw message of the emails  and  didn't 
see anything unusual. Both these messages were downloaded from Gmail 
and when I look there the skull isn't present. How is this happening?

Here is an example message from Citibank/Best Buy
 
The **From** header is "bestbuyc...@info.accountonline.com" 
<<ale...@citibank.com>>

![](cid:C93864B4-EFB7-4452-B0DA-F9456F97E229@rhp.tw "Screenshot.jpg")
 
This one is from CardPointers: "Emmanuel @ CardPointers" 
<ejc_at_getcardpointers_com_uyj8uazgcq_8498e...@privaterelay.appleid.com> 

![](cid:520D4413-5503-47E8-AF3B-032DCCE36B38@rhp.tw "Screenshot2.png")

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