Spam Email is any email message that is unwanted or unrequested by the recipient. Simply put it is Internet junk mail . Most of spam messages are chain letters, political mailings and commercial advertising. If you do receive a scam email, you should not click on any of the links it contains or believe anything it says. Ideally you should delete it straight away.
Email Spoofing refers to email that appears to have been originated from one source when it was actually sent from another source. People who Spam typically want email to appear to be from an email address that may not exist. This way the email cannot be traced back to the originator.
EMail Spoofing is actually a subpart of Email Spamming. As an example, you receive an email from your bank saying that there is a problem with your online account and need to verify your account information or your account will be suspended. You click on the link at the end of the email and get a log in page that looks exactly like your banks. If you enter your log in and password, you have just given the crooks complete access to your bank account.
In messaging environments to fight Spoofing admins use SPF and Reverse DNS. Here is some info on them:
http://www.openspf.org/
http://www.tech-faq.com/reverse-dns.shtml
Spoofing on your PC – well technically you would have to configure your PC to allow Spoofing by enabling SMTP and using an unknown (not yours) email ID to send out mail. At best to check you can see whether your PC has SMTP enabled (disable it) and whther your messaging client (Outlook etc) has the right email ID setup.
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Different between Spam and Spoofing
Spam Email is any email message that is unwanted or unrequested by the recipient. Simply put it is Internet junk mail . Most of spam messages are chain letters, political mailings and commercial advertising. If you do receive a scam email, you should not click on any of the links it contains or believe anything it says. Ideally you should delete it straight away.
Email Spoofing refers to email that appears to have been originated from one source when it was actually sent from another source. People who Spam typically want email to appear to be from an email address that may not exist. This way the email cannot be traced back to the originator.
EMail Spoofing is actually a subpart of Email Spamming. As an example, you receive an email from your bank saying that there is a problem with your online account and need to verify your account information or your account will be suspended. You click on the link at the end of the email and get a log in page that looks exactly like your banks. If you enter your log in and password, you have just given the crooks complete access to your bank account.
In messaging environments to fight Spoofing admins use SPF and Reverse DNS. Here is some info on them:
http://www.openspf.org/
http://www.tech-faq.com/reverse-dns.shtml
Spoofing on your PC – well technically you would have to configure your PC to allow Spoofing by enabling SMTP and using an unknown (not yours) email ID to send out mail. At best to check you can see whether your PC has SMTP enabled (disable it) and whther your messaging client (Outlook etc) has the right email ID setup.
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