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June 11, 2009 at 07:39 AM
jardinier

Email headers

by jardinier . Updated 17 years, 1 month ago

For more than three years I have been emailing an orphan, Magdalene, who was a refugee from Liberia, living in a refugee camp in Ghana.

Recently she returned to Liberia (or so she said). However with my basic knowledge of reading email headers, I could readily see that her emails were still coming from Ghana. I did not worry too much about this as I have found that emails from some African countries will appear to originate from a neighbouring country.

That is until I read the headers of an email from an orphanage in Liberia with which I have regular contact. The emails were clearly from Liberia.

So I accused my friend of lying and blocked her email. I received a phone call from her begging me to reopen her email.

Before I make a final judgment I would like opinions as to whether an email allegedly from Liberia might appear to come from Ghana. These are not adjacent countries as they are separated by Ivory Coast.

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