E-mail Spoofing

E-mail Spoofing is the practice of forging an e-mail header so that the message appears to have been sent by reputable merchant, financial institution or other enterprise. Phishers and distributors of spam often use E-mail Spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open and respond to their solicitations. This is the simplest type of social engineering, yet still effective to judge by the number of users who become victims of identity theft because they provided personal information to hackers as a result of a request from a spoofed e-mail.