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famas

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Hey all

I'm with BT and keep getting marketing e-mails from ([email protected])

The e-mails look genuine and contain part of my account number but the address looks very suspect to me?

I've searched the address and found lots of people asking the same question with mixed opinions so I'm still unsure about it.

Does any one here with BT know if its a genuine BT mail address?
Tried contacting BT via their live chat, still waiting for a response.


cheers.
 
Well the parent domain is bt.com so without checking the header to confirm, I'd say it's genuine.

Usually it's spam if the address is something like @bt.nonsense.clickhere.com etc.
 
is it the "your free broadband boost is here" one?, I can't remember if i tweeted them or facebooked them, but they replied that it was a legit email address, they doubled my cloud storage i think, which i don't use, but hey ho
 
Yeah I've had that one a few weeks ago but nothing has happened, no increase that I can see.
Recently had one about a renewal deal which contained my home phone number, up until this one I thought they where phishing but now I'm not so sure.
 
It's a genuine email. I had the same address email me when they notified me of my speed boost a few weeks back.

Emails are inherently insure, it's very easy to spoof an email address unless the receiving party's email server does validation checks, which most do nowadays I guess.

But like Chris said, the primary domain is bt.com. So assuming it wasn't being spoofed then it's all good. Split the domain up by dots and look at the last one before the suffix (.com, .co.uk, etc). As an example:
  • sdofjsdfjsoifj.bt.com - primary domain still bt.com, so legit
  • bt.sdofjsdfjsoifjbt.com - primary domain NOT bt.com (sdofjsdfjsoifj.com), probably not legit
  • sdofjsdfjsoifjbt.com - primary domain NOT bt.com (sdofjsdfjsoifjbt.com), probably not legit


Here's some headers from the ecomm email if anyone's interested.

Code: 
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.28.13.201 with SMTP id 192csp824053wmn;
        Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:39:55 -0700 (PDT)
ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com;
       dkim=pass [email protected] header.s=sim header.b=jPqEr5Nu;
       spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 37.148.183.37 as permitted sender) [email protected];
       dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=ecomm.bt.com
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from webgridb037.emsecure.net (webgridb037.emsecure.net. [37.148.183.37])
        by mx.google.com with UTF8SMTPS id i23si1287258edj.247.2017.09.29.08.39.55
        for <[email protected]>
        (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128);
        Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:39:55 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 37.148.183.37 as permitted sender) client-ip=37.148.183.37;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
       dkim=pass [email protected] header.s=sim header.b=jPqEr5Nu;
       spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 37.148.183.37 as permitted sender) [email protected];
       dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=ecomm.bt.com
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ecomm.bt.com; s=sim; x=1507304395; [email protected]; h=from:to: subject:date:reply-to:message-id:list-unsubscribe: list-unsubscribe-
From: BT Broadband <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: It’s free. It’s here. It’s your free broadband boost
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:31:02 +0000
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <PATT3L279_13672160_GuiiecCI2YZ5hCsjoAwP3Q==.8A66@webgridb037.emsecure.net>
X-GRID-REF: 8A66B7582E9A48E5AC85DC32E810B6FA.PATT3L279_13672160_GuiiecCI2YZ5hCsjoAwP3Q==
X-GRID-QID: 49095
X-MA-Reference: SIM_5q65E6_%2BggCIHDSXSkGJcuDOW_b9hB_aZxgiGY0NV9SbqNj5Q
X-MA-Instance: SIM_5q65E6_%2BggCIHDSXSkGJcuDOW_b9hB_aZxgiGY0NV9SbqNj5Q.3f434fa24b7a4b71ef6f48c87b3875c1
X-rpcampaign: BTECOM_9611_13_15093
Feedback-ID: 279:9611:13672160:R1CHPATT3L
List-ID: <2.9611.ecomm.bt.com>
X-MailingID: 9611_279
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_NexPart_001_"
 
A lot of companies now use third party software for sending out mass emails. It enables them to plan them out in advance and simply upload a file and the emails will be sent. They can also keep logs of tracking to see how many received the email and how many opened it.
 
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