Does there exist a site where I can check out a suspicious looking email? I delete just about everything I didn’t solicit, but I am curious. My latest is from somebody suing Expedia, and who wants to give me a bunch of money.
I anticipate with great pleasure receiving a bunch of silly replies concerning canned meat products.
Peace,
mangeorge
You can always look at Snopes.
How about Google? Select a relevant and uncommon phrase from the message and Google it, using quotes.
Good call. Google took me here first hit.
Now I’ll try ultrafilter’s suggestion.
I’ll be danged, snopes too!
See what I get for not saving receipts?
Well, the company Cloudmark runs essentially a “spam clearing house” which is a very effective anti-spam tool. But you can’t submit messages willy-nilly. Worse, it’s based on voting, not some objective evaluation, so legitimate solicitations that are spam-like get blocked.
Anyway, that’s a damn legitimate-sounding letter. What would the scam involve, exactly? They’re asking if you would like to out-out of a class-action lawsuit. All very standard stuff. Although, I’ve personally never got something like this by email, only mail.
EDIT: And snopes apparently confirms it’s legit?
they do ask you to go fill out a 'simple electronic form", which spammers will do to gain personal info. I haven’t looked at it yet.
Yes, it seems snoped does say it’s legit,
The lawsuit may be legit but is the email? Most class action suits result in only a little money or sometimes coupons or cards to each person. Who is offering you “a bunch of money”.
That part sounds fishy to me, probably someone is taking advantage of the suit to ripoff people. Did you sign up to be a part of the suit? How did this person get your email?
Too many questions! You can get some of the answers by reading the letter.
The “bunch of money” was my own ad lib.
I haven’t, and probably won’t, applied. I don’t have receipts.
Sorry, I didn’t realize the email you received was the letter in the link.
That does look legit.
Nothing to be sorry for. 
I just figured you hadn’t seen the letter.
I assume they got my email from Expedia’s own list. I wonder how many who could get some cash will pass simply because this looks fishy.
What do you mean by “check out”? Do you mean you want to know if the offer contained in a message is legitimate, or do you mean you want to trace the origin of the message? If the former, someone has already pointed to Snopes. If the latter, there are various services which will do this for you if you forward them a copy of the e-mail or paste it into a web form (including all headers). One popular free one is SpamCop. SpamCop will even send an abuse report to the responsible ISP, and add that ISP to its blacklist (which is used by many spam filters) if it doesn’t take the appropriate action.