Reference no: EM132317834

Assignment: Provide a short narrative on security techniques and mechanisms in protecting against spam activity

Find at least ten pieces of spam mail from any account, whether it be home, work, school, or something else. Using the e-mail headers, and wed site that might provide information, attempt to trace the spam mail back to its original source.

1. Collect the e-mail and view the e-mail header information in your e-mail program. 2. Find the ‘received' field in the headers and write down as many DNS or IP addresses as you can. Also look for common details in the header element of the different messages such as the same e-mail service and spammers.

APA format.

Capture a spam Email message. View the Email header and copy the information to your assignment document. Only one email is necessary. You do not need a reference for this assignment. You only need to show the header information. No narrative is necessary.

Showing the Email itself is not sufficient. You need to show the header information embedded in the message metadata. Search the Internet if you need help capturing the header information. Points will be deducted if the header information is not present in the assignment. An image of the message is not sufficient. A narrative is acceptable, but header information must be presented.