Email Forgery -- Email Spoofing Technique

No doubt all of us have experienced receiving an email message bearing a genuine sender's address. But in reality the address of the sender turns out to be phony. This is known as Email Spoofing, and Spammers use this technique to get recipients to open, and possibly even respond to their requests. The spoofed e-mail you receive may appear to come from a legitimate source, such as your bank, your credit card company, or even your email server from your internet service provider.

The false email would request you to send personal data, such as passwords, credit card numbers, etc, Any such information can be used for a variety of criminal purposes.

A step-by-step "How To" and a video demonstration of the spoofing technique is presented on the SCREENCASTR.COM web site, the Email Spoofing technique is easy to do.

Herb
http://www.herbertholeman.com