“From” Spoofing: How Spammers Send Email That Looks Like It Came From You

⚠️ Ever get an email from yourself that you didn’t send? You’ve likely been spoofed. I’ll show how spammers fake your address without touching your account at all, why it happens, and what (little) you can do about it.

⚠️ From spoofing
There are several ways a spammer can impersonate your email address and use it in the “From:” line of the email they send. All they need to do is craft an email with your email address listed as the sender and send it. Your account need not be involved in any way.

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Chapters
0:00 “From” Spoofing: How Spammers Send Email That Looks Like It Came From You
1:00 Accounts versus addresses
1:45 Addresses, accounts, and sending email
3:25 “From” Spoofing
4:50 Caveats
7:00 Where’d they get my email address?

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