Secret Service: how have scammers spoofed its official email?

As you know I tend to complain loudly about injustice regardless of politics etc and thats what I continue to do about BT,s useless -open to malware- owned by Americans – surveyed – information used for third parties Email “service ” also known as –
Leaky -BT Mail , it intentionally allows all sorts of malware to be transmitted through it Unsecure server .

Whenever I complain online BT seem to take some action but that lasts as long as it takes scammers can reprogramme their malware. If it wasn’t for the fact my email URL is known wordwide I would belong gone from this “dis-service ”

I was one of the first to get Proton Mail but I dont really use it much – Yandex Mail is slightly better sending malware into junk but its not the answer as it to is not perfect .
Australia has a secure email service that it says the NSA cant poke their nose into and there are several European ones , both US secure (encrypted ) email services were shut down by the NSA as my US friends are very annoyed about .

While checking up on the official reason just given for shutting down which.net I found out that Window
10 users of Microsoft Exchange Server for emails has- back-doors so no joy there for Window users .
if its “free ” it isn’t really Free it comes at a cost and even paid for ones hand over your emails on request –
Google Analytics is so “good ” at info gathering that it doesn’t really need to scan your emails for info to use but– it does— Gmail might be the “bees knees ” to many but in the USA its cut to pieces for its info gathering.

Which ? does a good job on this convo of warning and showing people how to spot scammers -redirect hackers (via fake websites ) but stopping this by making email services Fully secure ? just like the scam sales calls its never going to happen , not in the interests of big business .

It amazes me people say -dont complain its part of the modern “way of life ” – I reply -no its not and it doesn’t need to be.

There are three other clues. Top line includes a date in American format (month first). Sender’s e-address ends “.co.uk” – a clear error. The computer will ignore the text between .
Then look at the salutation….. from government? I don’t think so!

W

Just re-read this and spotted the “HM Revenue.co.uk” obvious fake url.

Those of us lucky enough to have to pax tax and such like may already know the correct url would be “…gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs”

I started getting dozens of spam mails from my own address. By hovering over the supposed address I was shown the real one. It got so bad that I closed the account, which led to a whole lot more troubles with sites that used it as an identification. The administration on some of these accounts leaves a lot to be desired!

Some years ago I persuaded HMRC not to put links in the emails they send out on the basis that they were helping the scammers. Thus for a while (I would have to check if they still do this) they would send you a message but NOT provide the login link – after all, you know where to log in. Just checking a few of my recent emails from HRMC – they do NOT provide any links. Genuine emails state “Do not reply to it or click on any links”. Maybe you should check with HRMC and confirm this, and if they confirm it is still the case, publicise it. This means that genuine emails don’t have links, but scammers do – fairly easy then to spot scams – they are the ones with links.

I use Spamcop (https://www.spamcop.net/) to find out who has sent the suspect email. Spamcop analyses the email and identifies the actual sender. You then have the option of reporting the email as spam to the domain from which the email was sent. Spamcop maintains a blacklist of domains from which spam emails have been sent. Email services can consult the list and block emails from the offending domains.

You need to register with Spamcop. You receive an email address unique to you to which you can forward suspect emails for analysis. After analysing the email Spamcop sends you an email (usually within seconds) giving a link to a webpage containing the analysis.

I have read all the comments in this debate and the helpful suggestions offered; I feel the level of expertise is awesome and way beyond my ability. The comment I would like to make (and I hope nobody takes offence) is that the grammar and general usage of the English language is often appalling and I offer one bit of advice – once you have typed a message make sure you read it over before sending!
Best wishes in your (our) fight against the Scammers.
Desperado