Is this for real? or is this a joke?

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<p>Received this e-mail tonight. </p>

<p>Congratulations!</p>

<p>I am pleased to deliver some very exciting news regarding your admission to UCLA: You have been
awarded an annual scholarship of up to $9,200 per year, or a four-year total of up to $36,800.</p>

<p>This prestigious scholarship is made possible by the generosity of the Lincy Foundation, which earlier
this year donated $200 million to create the UCLA Dream Fund.</p>

<p>You were selected because of your exceptional academic performance and for your outstanding
promise as a scholar. We are honored that you are considering becoming a Bruin and we hope to hear
from you in the next few weeks that you are enrolling at UCLA.</p>

<p>The scholarship will cover the need-based student loans and federal work study in your original
provisional award letter. You will receive a revised letter from the UCLA Financial Aid Office shortly.</p>

<p>UCLA is a world-class university, and we need world-class students like you to join us in the pursuit of
excellence. Once again, congratulations. You have earned a place among the best at UCLA.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Gene D. Block
Chancellor</p>

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<p>looks real- Congratulations</p>

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<p>It was addressed to “<a href=“mailto:students@ucla.edu”>students@ucla.edu</a>”… does that mean everyone got one then? Weird. Hope it’s not an April’s Fools Day Joke…</p>

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<p>did you look at the website to see if it shows anything?</p>

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<p>My award letter is still the same, but they say they’ll generate a new one soon?
If this is a joke, it’s a really really mean joke. If everyone gets one then we’ll know it’s def not true… ahh this is killing me.</p>

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<p>I got this too. I was wondering the same thing as well.</p>

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<p>I’m trying to not get my hopes up.</p>

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<p>I didn’t get one…</p>

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<p>Something just comes off as fishy in the e-mail…

  1. It’s not addressed to me personally… the recipients e-mail is “<a href=“mailto:students@ucla.edu”>students@ucla.edu</a>”
  2. The sender’s e-mail is UCLA<em>Financial</em>Aid<em><a href=“mailto:Office@fao.ucla.edu”>Office@fao.ucla.edu</a> and their name is UCLA</em>Financial<em>Aid</em>Office</p>

<p>I don’t think either are the actual e-mails / sender names of the UCLA fin aid office.</p>

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<p>Anyone know anything about whether or not this is real? I’m refraining from showing my parents until I know it’s official, haha.</p>

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<p>It might be an April Fool’s joke.</p>

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<p>That’s a really mean trick, I mean what if someone actually SIR-ed tonight to UCLA expecting $36,000 in scholarships =/</p>

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<p>I would call the Financial Aid Office if they’re open tomorrow. It doesn’t really look real, but I certainly hope it is.</p>

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<p>Just an FYI, you can send emails from any address. </p>

<p>Also, they can put “<a href=“mailto:students@ucla.edu”>students@ucla.edu</a>” in the “to” and in the “BCC” they put all the emails they wanted to send to.</p>

<p>Please view the source of the email. </p>

<p>In Gmail you can do this by clicking the email, and in the right corner there is a down arrow. Click that and select “Show original”</p>

<p>On hotmail do the same thing. Open the email and click the down arrow on the right and select “view message source”</p>

<p>You’ll see the source code of the email with all the details.
You should see things like
Received: from out-51.smtp.ucla.edu (out-51.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.164])
or
Received: from out-71.smtp.ucla.edu (out-71.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.168])
or
Received: from smtp-14.smtp.ucla.edu (smtp-14.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.241])</p>

<p>so if you don’t see things that contain ucla.edu then it’s definitely fake. If you’re still confused send me a PM or post here.</p>

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<p>Ooh thanks for information rpicton.
Is there a way to check the source code using yahoo mail?</p>

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<p>Yes,</p>

<p>Open your email in full view
at the top, you’ll see “Actions”
click that and select “view full header”</p>

<p>EDIT: if you’re using the old version of Yahoo! mail, open the email and click “Full headers” in the bottom right.</p>

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<p>I see this e-mail address within all the text : mta1042.mail.sk1.yahoo.com
but there’s also a bunch of ucla.edus…</p>

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<p>Copy and paste all the “Received: from” This will tell you which mail servers it was sent through</p>

<p>The “X-Originating-IP:” will tell you the IP address of the server it was sent from</p>

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<p>Alright. Try to interpret this for me?</p>

<p>Authentication-Results: mta1042.mail.sk1.yahoo.com from=fao.ucla.edu; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=fao.ucla.edu; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO out-56.smtp.ucla.edu) (169.232.46.165) by mta1042.mail.sk1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:56:17 -0700
Received: from smtp-11.smtp.ucla.edu (smtp-11.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.244]) by out-56.smtp.ucla.edu with ESMTP id p322sCZU001156; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:54:18 -0700
Received: from EMHUB2.ad.ucla.edu (emhub2.ad.ucla.edu [169.232.42.220]) by smtp-11.smtp.ucla.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p322sCZU001156; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:54:17 -0700
Received: from EM3.ad.ucla.edu (169.232.40.101) by EMHUB2.ad.ucla.edu (169.232.42.220) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:51:52 -0700
Received: from EM2.ad.ucla.edu ([169.232.40.100]) by EM3.ad.ucla.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:51:52 -0700
Received: from FAOCYC9I ([128.97.148.206]) by EM2.ad.ucla.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:51:51 -0700</p>

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<p>Looks legit, congrats. (Legit in the sense that it was sent from UCLA indeed)</p>