GMail suspects confirmation email in stealing personal information

Posted by Dennis Gorelik on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Dennis Gorelik
Published on 2012-06-09T00:35:37Z Indexed on 2012/06/09 4:42 UTC
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When user registers on my web site, web site sends user email confirmation link.

Subject: Please confirm your email address

Body:

Please open this link in your browser to confirm your email address:
http://www.postjobfree.com/a/c301718062444f96ba0e358ea833c9b3
This link will expire on: 6/9/2012 8:04:07 PM EST.

If my web site sends that email to GMaill (either @gmail.com or another domain that's handled by Google Apps) and that user never emailed to email -- then GMail not only puts the email to spam folder, but also adds prominent red warning:

Be careful with this message. Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Unless you trust the sender, don't click links or reply with personal information. Learn more

That warning really scares many of my users, so they are afraid to open that link and confirm their email.

What can I do about it?

Ideally I would like that message end up in user's inbox, not spam folder. But at least how do I prevent that scary message?

IP address of my mailing server is not blacklisted: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a208.43.198.72

I use SPF and DKIM signature.

Below is the email that ended up in spam folder with that scary red message.

Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.112.84.98 with SMTP id x2csp36568lby;
        Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:04:15 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.60.25.6 with SMTP id y6mr9110318oef.42.1339200255375;
        Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:04:15 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: 
Received: from smtp.postjobfree.com (smtp.postjobfree.com. [208.43.198.72])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id v8si6058193oev.44.2012.06.08.17.04.14;
        Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:04:15 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 208.43.198.72 as permitted sender) client-ip=208.43.198.72;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 208.43.198.72 as permitted sender) [email protected]; dkim=pass [email protected]
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns;
        d=postjobfree.com; s=postjobfree.com;
        h=          received:message-id:mime-version:from:to:date:subject:content-type;
        b=TCip/3hP1WWViWB1cdAzMFPjyi/aUKXQbuSTVpEO7qr8x3WdMFhJCqZciA69S0HB4
          Koatk2cQQ3fOilr4ledCgZYemLSJgwa/ZRhObnqgPHAglkBy8/RAwkrwaE0GjLKup
          0XI6G2wPlh+ReR+inkMwhCPHFInmvrh4evlBx/VlA=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=postjobfree.com; s=postjobfree.com;
        h=content-type:subject:date:to:from:mime-version:message-id;
        bh=N59EIgRECIlAnd41LY4HY/OFI+v1p7t5M9yP+3FsKXY=;
        b=J3/BdZmpjzP4I6GA4ntmi4REu5PpOcmyzEL+6i7y7LaTR8tuc2h7fdW4HaMPlB7za
          Lj4NJPed61ErumO66eG4urd1UfyaRDtszWeuIbcIUqzwYpnMZ8ytaj8DPcWPE3JYj
          oKhcYyiVbgiFjLujib3/2k2PqDIrNutRH9Ln7puz4=
Received: from sv3035 (sv3035 [208.43.198.72]) by smtp.postjobfree.com with SMTP;
   Fri, 8 Jun 2012 20:04:07 -0400
Message-ID: 
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "PostJobFree Notification"
 
To: [email protected]
Date: 8 Jun 2012 20:04:07 -0400
Subject: Please confirm your email address
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
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