Spoofing

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Spoofing involves creating a fraudulent website to mimic an actual, well-known website run by another party.

E-mail spoofing occurs when the sender address and other parts of an e-mail header are altered to appear as though the e-mail originated from a different source. Spoofing hides the origin of an e-mail message.

It is also technically possible for an attacker to masquerade as another VoIP caller. For example, an attacker could possibly inject a bogus caller ID into an ordinary VoIP call so that the receiver believes the call to be coming from a known and trusted source (a bank, for example). The receiver, fooled by the electronic identification of the caller, may place unwarranted trust in the person at the other end. In such an exchange, the receiver may be tricked into disclosing personal information. Attackers may use these bits and pieces of personal information to complete partial identity records of victims of identity theft.