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e-mail spoofing
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e-mail spoofing
The 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.


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According to Gulf News sources, several persons have recently received hoax e-mails as well as Skype calls in which fraudsters impersonate senior officials of UAE banks and try to lure recipients into a seemingly authentic business transaction.
Meanwhile, one person who will not be taking the club over is Rick Parkinson, who appears to have been behind a hoax e-mail from a public relations company claiming he wanted to buy the club with a group of North East businessmen.
This is a hoax e-mail that has been circulating in one form or another for almost 15 years, and mobile users, on this particular occasion have nothing to worry about.
 
 
 
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