http://techattitude.com/internet/protect-yourself-from-spoofing/ A blog on Tech Tips, Online Tools and Software, Blogging, Mobile World, Tech News and Social Media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://techattitude.com/internet/protect-yourself-from-spoofing/comment-page-1/#comment-5464 Email Spoofing | Tech Tips Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:50:44 +0000 http://techattitude.com/2008/09/protect-yourself-from-spoofing/#comment-5464 [...] (function() { var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0]; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js'; s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1); })(); TweetShareEmail spoofing is a very big trouble for the internet users since long. Emails with forged headers, where the senders name are altered to make it seem like it came from some other source is called a spoof email. The activity is thus called email spoofing. This can cause a great deal of trouble to anyone because it might make the email receiver to actually believe that the email came from the original source. So if the one sending the spoof email has some basic details about the person he is sending the email to, he can use filthy tricks to make a lot out of it. People should become careful and save themselves from spoofs. [...] [...] (function() { var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0]; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js'; s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1); })(); TweetShareEmail spoofing is a very big trouble for the internet users since long. Emails with forged headers, where the senders name are altered to make it seem like it came from some other source is called a spoof email. The activity is thus called email spoofing. This can cause a great deal of trouble to anyone because it might make the email receiver to actually believe that the email came from the original source. So if the one sending the spoof email has some basic details about the person he is sending the email to, he can use filthy tricks to make a lot out of it. People should become careful and save themselves from spoofs. [...]

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