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cjbprime
3531 days ago
How do you know they were from FitBit, rather than from a spammer with their From address set to FitBit?
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michaelrhansen
3531 days ago
good question - i believe the email address was Fitbit but will confirm
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cjbprime
3531 days ago
Ah, sounds like you don't know about from addresses: they are specified by the sender, and not authenticated. A spammer can send email that appears to be from anyone else, until you look at the validated headers (like "Return-path:").
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