Linkers, I just renewed my business name because ASIC is now doing it instead of the state of Victoria. That all appears legitimate based on a paper letter I received from them. I did all the payments etc. online as instructed.
Today I got an email from them (??) that I'm always leary of because there are so many spoofs. So instead I went to the ASIC account and there are no records of messages being sent to me. So I looked at the full header of the email I received (below) and it appears to be coming not from Australia, which is always a clue that something isn't legit. HOWEVER, given the amount of outsourcing for email that is done by government agencies today (I went a few rounds with AUSTRAC about this for a couple years, as well as advising other govt agencies about this as a problem), it's hard to know what is real and what isn't. The embedded links are using what appear to be ASIC addresses for the hidden links. I've sent all the info to ASIC along with a question about their practices, which was not easy, I'll tell ya. They won't accept a plain text message and only allow 2000 characters in their message field. They also do NOT accept emails themselves! Jan >Return-path: <[email protected]> >Envelope-to: [email protected] >Delivery-date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:18:08 -0400 >Received: from okinawa.sge.net ([152.91.65.130]:25116) > by pearl.host-care.com with esmtps (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) > (Exim 4.80) > (envelope-from <[email protected]>) > id 1Ucj4Z-0007Oe-F6 > for [email protected]; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:18:06 -0400 >Received: from valencia.bru.gwy (unknown [172.30.65.65]) > by okinawa.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE049181CB > for <[email protected]>; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:14 +0000 (UTC) >Received: from valencia.bru.gwy (unknown [127.0.0.1]) > by IMSVA80 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9151730799 > for <[email protected]>; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:14 +0000 (GMT) >Received: from quark1.sge.net (unknown [152.91.9.198]) > by valencia.bru.gwy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D70B306B0 > for <[email protected]>; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:14 +0000 (GMT) >Received: from mailgate2.asic.gov.au (unknown [10.11.2.20]) > by quark1.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDAB367C39 > for <[email protected]>; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:17:13 +1000 (EST) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] blog: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/ business: http://www.janwhitaker.com Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. ~Madeline L'Engle, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
