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.

1. How To Avoid Email Spoofing
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2. Inception
• In today’s 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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. alphasandesh.com

6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Try our free online email
spam checker tool.
For more details please
have a look
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