Could you please explain why legitimate companies’ emails lack a “verified checkmark” to help customers distinguish them from fraudulent emails?

Question

Could you please explain why legitimate companies’ emails lack a “verified checkmark” to help customers distinguish them from fraudulent emails?

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Answer 1

Because the way email system works, it’s not possible.

For social media platforms, you have a company at the top who owns the platform and decides what goes and what doesn’t go. They also collect a lot of information from its users so they can verify its own users.

For email system, it’s all decentralised. Your emails go directly to the server of the recipient (roughly speaking). There’s no central authority/body that manages the system.