email spoofing
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email spoofing
The unauthorized use of a third-party domain name as the sender's name in an email message. Most often used by spammers, spoofing the name of a popular retailer or organization entices the recipient to read the full message. See email authentication, spoofing and spam.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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If you recall, the
email spoofing case involved about $1 million.
Email spoofing is a tactic used by fraudsters because people are more likely to open an email when they think it has been sent by a legitimate source.
The crooks have gone on to use
email spoofing - the creation of messages with a forged sender address.
"We have filed a case of
email spoofing which involves use of a forged email header to make it look like a legitimate email.
The cyber crime police said that it is a case of
email spoofing, in which messages are sent from forged addresses.
FRAUDSTERS are using an
email spoofing scam to trick workers into transferring funds to their account, a fraud body has warned.
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