how spoofing works
spoofing criminals try to gain your trust and they count on making you believe that the spoofed communications are legitimate often using the name of a big trusted company such as amazon or paypal is enough to get targets to take some kind of action or reveal information for instance a fake email from amazon might indicate a problem with a recent purchase which could motivate you to click on the link to learn more hint don t click on the link from that link you could download malware or be directed to a fake login page where you unknowingly enter your username and password spoofing can lead you to disclose personal and financial information send money and download malware which can lead to infected computers financial fraud and identity theft spoofing can be used to spread malware via links and attachments bypass network access controls and restrict access through denial of service dos attacks at the corporate level spoofing can cause infected computer systems and networks data breaches and loss of income 2there are several kinds of spoofing including email spoofing text message spoofing caller id spoofing and url and gps spoofing essentially if there s a form of online communication spoofers are trying to scam their way into it and into your identity and your assets 