Have u ever received a threatening email from ur inbox?
I have..have u?
Called "spoofed" email!
Called "spoofed" email!
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Not threats, thank goodness, but I have received criminal messages - and yes, they do arrive in the "In-box"!
Some pretend to be from genuine companies or government agencies, by copying their home-pages, including banks with whom I have never had accounts.
Some look like cold-calling sales attempts. A few might be real but I still treat them as criminals.
Some are obviously bogus - e.g. from bizarre names and domains, talking about photographs I know nothing about, claiming I have won something, and such like.
A few are spoofed - using genuine friends' e-identities and trying to beg a loan for an invented reason such as being stuck somewhere abroad. One recent message did not ask for anything but did ask if I had used Amazon recently. These types appear to find club e-mail lists to attack.
Action? Report as "phishing", block name, block domain (unless that is a genuine, public one like gmail), delete.
Some pretend to be from genuine companies or government agencies, by copying their home-pages, including banks with whom I have never had accounts.
Some look like cold-calling sales attempts. A few might be real but I still treat them as criminals.
Some are obviously bogus - e.g. from bizarre names and domains, talking about photographs I know nothing about, claiming I have won something, and such like.
A few are spoofed - using genuine friends' e-identities and trying to beg a loan for an invented reason such as being stuck somewhere abroad. One recent message did not ask for anything but did ask if I had used Amazon recently. These types appear to find club e-mail lists to attack.
Action? Report as "phishing", block name, block domain (unless that is a genuine, public one like gmail), delete.
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