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Bank of America has published SPF records, but they are using a feature which results in messages merely being suspect when the message isn't sent from a system that's part of Bank of America's computer network. This effectively allows emails that fraudulently indicate they came from Bank of America to be received by the specified recipient, thus failing to prevent the harm that Sender ID is designed to stop.

domains for which the above description applies:

For the DNS geeks among you, here's what they currently publish:

bankofamerica.com 

; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> @ns4.bankofamerica.com. -t any bankofamerica.com.
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46476
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 10, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bankofamerica.com.             IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
bankofamerica.com.      3600    IN      SOA     primarydmz.bankofamerica.com. hostmaster.bankofamerica.com. 934 3600 600 604800 600
bankofamerica.com.      43200   IN      NS      ns1.bankofamerica.com.
bankofamerica.com.      43200   IN      NS      ns3.bankofamerica.com.
bankofamerica.com.      43200   IN      NS      ns4.bankofamerica.com.
bankofamerica.com.      3600    IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a:sfmx02.bankofamerica.com a:sfmx04.bankofamerica.com a:vamx04.bankofamerica.com a:vamx02.bankofamerica.com a:txmx02.bankofamerica.com a:txmx04.bankofamerica.com a:cr-mailgw.bankofamerica.com a:cw-mailgw.bankofamerica.com ~all"
bankofamerica.com.      300     IN      MX      10 txemail2.bankofamerica.com.
bankofamerica.com.      300     IN      MX      10 vaemail2.bankofamerica.com.
bankofamerica.com.      300     IN      MX      10 sfemail2.bankofamerica.com.
bankofamerica.com.      3600    IN      A       171.161.161.173
bankofamerica.com.      3600    IN      A       171.159.65.173

;; Query time: 69 msec
;; SERVER: 171.159.192.15#53(ns4.bankofamerica.com.)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 20 09:13:33 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 500

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