There are numerous email scams that land in your inbox every day, from malware-ridden attachments supposedly from a friend to IRS impersonators to fake invoices from Geek Squad. And what makes many of ...
Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...
The City of Troy posted a warning on its social media page that it received reports of emails impersonating city employees. They said that “spoofing” scams trick people, “by looking like they come ...
In an attempt to block email spoofing attacks on yahoo.com addresses, Yahoo began imposing a stricter email validation policy that unfortunately breaks the usual workflow on legitimate mailing lists.
Email spoofing is a type of cyber attack where fraudsters forge the sender address on an email to make it appear as if it came from a trusted source. This deception tricks recipients into believing ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND)—City Water, Light and Power is letting customers know that a spoof email claiming to be from CWLP’s Customer Service Office is going around. According to the CWLP the spoofing ...
Last Friday, I started getting bounced messages from compuserve and other hosts for emails I had never sent. Some investigation showed that a spammer (who I will refer to as Tiny, his first email was ...
Spoofed email – email that appears to come from a legitimate source but is not – is becoming an increasingly worrisome threat. It’s so serious that the NSA and FBI have joined forces in releasing the ...