Good idea or not, that's a debate. But if it did happen - be ready for the chorus of... "But it used to show the person's name, why did it change? Can you change it back?"
People don't respond well to change. Even if it's for the betterment of humankind, that's not really comprehensible. On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:13 AM Tim Bray via mailop <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to strip all sender names from > emails coming into our corporate email system. To avoid a false name > being used by a scammer. > > So rewrite a header like > > `From: Bob Smith <[email protected]>` to `From: [email protected]` > > Because the domain part is checked by SPF and DKIM. The but name (Bob > Smith) is not. > > Background: > > Some people at work fell for a scam email where the From line was > > From: =?UTF-8?Q?Darren_Smith=C2=A0?= <[email protected]> > > That's a Darren_Smith with a non breaking space on the end. > [email protected] is the real scammer address. > > Darren Smith (not his real name) is the Managing director of their > employer. And they just trusted the name, and didn't check the > domain. To the more experienced members of staff it was so blatantly a > scam they just deleted it. To the junior members, they rushed to the > shops for amazon and google vouchers thinking they were on a special > mission for the big boss. £1300 lost, some maybe recovered. > > If I stripped the name, they would have seen [email protected] and > hopefully noticed sooner. > > Thoughts or ideas? > > > -- > Tim Bray > Huddersfield, GB > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >
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