Friday, June 25, 2004
How to Identify 'Spoofed' Email
Way back in 1996, Bill Barnes of Slate Magazine wrote an article about SPOOFED Email. This article is still relevant today. He wrote:
"Like a well-paid courier, SMTP just passes along what it was given. I tell Outlook my e-mail address, but neither it nor the SMTP server provided by my Internet service provider has any way to verify that it's true. Just this minute, I changed my Outlook settings to say that my name is Mork, e-mail address mork@ork.planet, and Outlook happily sent more mail to my wife, who is tiring of my little shenanigans. ISPs smarter than mine configure their mail servers to be more restrictive about the e-mail they'll accept, attempting to verify the veracity of the sender's address, but a determined spoofer usually knows how insert e-mail further along the transmission chain."
Please go to guide.netfronts.com on how to spot the telltale signs of spoofed e-mail.
"Like a well-paid courier, SMTP just passes along what it was given. I tell Outlook my e-mail address, but neither it nor the SMTP server provided by my Internet service provider has any way to verify that it's true. Just this minute, I changed my Outlook settings to say that my name is Mork, e-mail address mork@ork.planet, and Outlook happily sent more mail to my wife, who is tiring of my little shenanigans. ISPs smarter than mine configure their mail servers to be more restrictive about the e-mail they'll accept, attempting to verify the veracity of the sender's address, but a determined spoofer usually knows how insert e-mail further along the transmission chain."
Please go to guide.netfronts.com on how to spot the telltale signs of spoofed e-mail.
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