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E-mail spoofing can
assume a variety of forms. Basically, a spoofed e-mail appears to be
sent from one source when it actually was sent from another source entirely.
However, any replies to a spoofed e-mail go directly to the legitimate
e-mail account causing confidential customer information to be captured. It
is extremely difficult to detect a spoofed e-mail address, at first glance.
But it is possible to identify a spoofed e-mail by carefully analyzing
e-mail headers
.Examples
of spoofed email that could potentially affect you include: email claiming
to be from a system administrator requesting users to change their passwords
to a specified string and threatening to suspend their account if they do
not do this , email claiming to be from a person in authority requesting
users to send them a copy of a password file or other sensitive information
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