RE: FN-FORUM: Email Spoofing

date posted 5th August 2005 13:29

I think your describing a "joe job"; personally, I've yet to find any
suitable protection against it but you might find something I've not on
google.




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> Subject: FN-FORUM: Email Spoofing
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>
> Does anyone know of any ways of cutting down/preventing email
> spoofing?
>
> i.e. someone is spamming using your email address in the from
> field to make it look like it's from a trusted source?
>
> by the nature of the protocol I can't see that there's a way
> round this, but perhaps someone might know a trick or two.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon.
>
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