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e-mail spoofing |
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e-mail spoofingThe unauthorized use of a third-party domain name as the sender's name in an e-mail message. Most often used by spammers, spoofing the name of a popular retailer or organization entices the recipient to read the full message. See e-mail authentication, spoofing and spam. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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So far, Peykar has received the hoax e-mail twice from friends and relatives. Most hoax e-mail originates from pranks and attempts at humor, such as the announcement asking administrators to shut down school servers for a 24-hour period so the Internet could be "cleaned. |
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