How To Avoid Email Spoofing

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How To Avoid Email Spoofing
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Inception

• In todays growing world it is difficult to
  imagine life without e-mails. These are very
  quick and simple to use thus, people choose to
  interact through emails. You can use emails for
  individual or business purposes, but these days,
  using emails also are not very secure.  E-mail
  viruses and email spoofing are different forms of
  threats to the all e-mail users.

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What is Email Spoofing

• Email spoofing is a trick that spammers and
  identity thieves use to baffle and deceive
  people. The concept is that if an email seems to
  originate from a recognized sender, the aim of
  the phishing mail will be more probable to fall
  for the deception.

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Defensive tips against email spoofing

• Email security must remain a main concern for
  every business. Here are tips on protecting
  yourself against email spoofing
• Firstly check the salutation
• Take care of grammar mistakes
• Must check the links in email
• Claiming that an email has come from reliable
  source
• Forward spoofed emails to FTC

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Firstly check the salutation

• A real e-mail will address you by your name
  because you previously had a relationship with
  the sender. A spoofed email generally has a
  nonspecific salutation such as Dear Customer,
  because these messages are delivered in huge
  amount to a large pool of prospective victims.

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Take care of grammar mistakes

• Just go through the text of the email to
  distinguish if it uses a high quality spelling
  and grammar. A lot of spoofed emails come from
  spammers in other countries who do not speak good
  English. This is willingly evident by
  misspellings and mistakes or unusual language use
  in the email.

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Must check the links in email

• Move your pointer over any links in the e-mail,
  right click it, and choose the "properties"
  option to notice where they actually go. Spammers
  spoof links by making the text appear justifiable
  whereas the definite link goes to a forged
  website. Avoid clicking the links in distrustful
  emails because you might go to a site that
  attempts to download spiteful software onto your
  computer.

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Claiming that an email has come from reliable
source

• Spammers frequently claim you must reply by a
  definite date or your account may be suspended,
  or it will claim you made an order with a genuine
  company. They do this so you will react without
  thinking instead of scrutinizing the email and
  identifying the red flags.

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Forward spoofed emails to FTC

• Forward spoofed e-mails to the corporation named
  in the message and deliver a copy to the Federal
  Trade Commission (FTC). The Federal Trade
  Commission manages a record of these messages
  that can be used by law enforcement to track
  scammers.

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Conclusion

• At the end, it is very hard to stop email
  spoofing attacks completely. Businesses must take
  action to stop them. Be alert of phishing
  attacks, i.e. spam messages that link to false
  pages meant to appear like genuine website login
  pages.

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• Try our free online email spam checker tool.
• For more details please have a look
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