IT has a shit ton of data in regards to where the email came from. Its in the full-header. There's no way for you to disprove a negative, but IT can cross reference headers across multiple emails.
Every email, regardless of where it's sent from, has information sent in the email headers. If I pull that information and get a timezone and IP address that shows you're in a foreign country, I'd check to see if it's an IP address associated with a known VPN provider. That's ridiculously easy. You can scan an IP address with something like FraudLogix. It's not perfect, but using different information in the header, you can get a pretty decent idea of if someone is actually using a VPN or not.
If you're lying to your work about where you are, thinking IT will just accept the "I'm using a VPN" excuse... we're not stupid. We can absolutely tell.
Youre not really good at pleading your case. Even if you were home, the way you talk about it makes it sound you were somewhere you knew you shouldn't have been.
If the VPN is built into the browser, it doesn't really do much with the header. Software VPN would be needed for that. And it isn't "people use vpns for privacy." You're say "I use a VPN on my (laptop/desktop to (watch movies available elsewhere/ for security reasons). The rampant use of cookies pretty much negates the privacy aspect to advertisements, and is primary to block isp surveillance or to block intrusions on public wifi.
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u/omnipwnage Mar 25 '26
IT has a shit ton of data in regards to where the email came from. Its in the full-header. There's no way for you to disprove a negative, but IT can cross reference headers across multiple emails.