I image SGE stands for "Secure Gateway Environment", the Commonwealth's outsourced firewall environment.
Michael On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Scott Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Domain Name: SGE.NET > Registrant: > Verizon Business Australia Pty Ltd > 243 Northbourne Ave > Lyneham > Canberra, ACT 2602 > AU > > All of the (public) IP addresses listed are in Australia, and are > registered to Verizon Business. > > I would have no doubt this is legitimate, with Verizon acting as a outgoing > mail gateway for ASIC. > > To remove any doubt, lets look who handles ASIC's inbound email : > > $ dig mx asic.gov.au +short > 10 asic-in-157.sge.net. > > So SGE/Verizon handle their incoming email, leaving zero doubt that your > email is legitimate. > > Scott > > > > > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Jan Whitaker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
