I just got an email from google adsense with the subject line "Your Google AdSense PIN" and in the body of the msg is some garbled up text almost looks like a publickey hash.....and nothing else. I looked at the headers and it is from google. Anyone know what this might be? I know that google sends pins to your address so wtf is this?
When your earnings reach $50 you have to submit your PIN number to verify your address, maybe this what this e-mail is about or the text is so bad that cannot be read properly? The e-mail is valid, is in fact Google Adense Support.
The email says nothing except for this garbled text...... When I login to adsense it says the pin is on the way to my payment address on file. So I am expecting it will show up via snail mail. Now I get this unreadable email that looks a hash of some sort.
Well in one of my computer classes we learned how to email people and make the "from:" email address be from anyone we wanted.
well I don't wanna do that since I dont know what it is. But I guess if no one else has got anything like this then something is wierd.
powwka its not the from address that is the only one. .........in the header shows the actual computer names that handled the msg and all of them are from google...........maybe those are spoofed too I guess. Received: from zps78.corp.google.com by smtp-out.google.com it seems very legit.
Ok then I don't think those can be spoofed, I thought you might not have looked that deep into who it came from.
Do be careful, more and more people are getting emails supposedly from places like Paypal, Amazon, etc, but it sometimes turn out to from unrelated sources.
Yeah I'm trying to be very careful......if this was a spoof then what would the spoofer hope to gain with this garbled text? I'm wondering if this garbled text was actually an image that got messed up in transmission somehow.