As phishing attempts grow more advanced, so do the efforts to imitate real organizations, which make it easier to trick unsuspecting recipients into divulging valuable information or assets. A common ...

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, ...

In a recent email fraud incident, employees in the finance department of a clinical trial software firm based in New York City were conned into wiring $4.8 million to an offshore bank account to ...

Email spoofing is forging email so it looks like it came from someone it didn’t. I learned to spoof email in the fall of 1993 during my sophomore year at Northwestern. An upperclassman in my dorm ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us have heard of, or unfortunately had, viruses on our computer at some point in our lives. An email spoof is a little more inconspicuous but still prominent in the world of computing. The ...

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.

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 ...