Background

Got an email over the weekend.

It looked very nice, crispy, professional, and to the point.

It states that my Instagram’s email address has been changed.

Is it really so?

Email

Email Contents

Textual

Image

Troubleshooting

Outline

1. Email
   • Message Source
2. Instagram
   • Profile

Email

Message Source

Steps

Depending on your email provider, you may be able to view the email message source/header.

Mine is hotmail, and I am able to to do the following:-

1. Access specific email
2. Access the email’s menu
3. Access the drop-down menu,  View \ View Message Source

 

Images

Image – View Message Source

 

 

Contents

Here is the content of this specific message

Textual

Explanation

1. Authentication-Results: spf=none (sender IP is 78.140.240.249)
   • spf=none
     • Sure Sign that it is a spoofed email
     • It does not even contain an spf header
2. Received: from e-oblak.com (78.140.240.249) by
   • e-oblak.com
     • who is e-oblak.com

 

Instagram

Profile

Steps

Please take the time to access instagram and review your profile.

Outline

1. Here is the URL to access Instagram’s profile ( https://www.instagram.com/accounts/edit/ )

Images

Image – Instagram – Profile

Explanation

Confirmed that my instagram’s email address has not been changed.

 

Scripture

1. 2nd Timothy 3:16-17 – All Scripture is God-Breathed  ( Link )
   • ¹⁶ Instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work
2. Proverbs 25:14 – More Proverbs of Solomon ( Link )
   • ¹⁴ Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.
3. Jude 1:10-12 – God’s Judgment on the Ungodly ( Link )
   • ¹⁰ But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
     ¹¹ Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
     ¹² These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

 

Beloved

Beloved, a lot of the emails and phone calls you will get these days are “just a waste of time and attention“.

They are there and make it through “just to train you“.