"Spoofing emails" are dangerous emails aimed at personal information and money. It tricks banks and mail-order sites into leading to fraudulent sites. Spoofing emails are evolving year by year and are becoming more and more sophisticated. Let's take a look at the checkpoints that will surely detect "spoofing emails".
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"Spoofing email" that spoofed the name of a major company sends an email by spoofing the sender, and guides the recipient to a fake login screen from there. It is a method of stealing the entire account information such as e-mail address and password.
Spoofing emails are sent by deceiving the name of an existing company or service. To avoid being fooled by this, check the four points of "sender, text, link in email, contact information". If there is any unnatural point, it is wise to consider it as a spoofed email and ignore it.
In most cases, spoofed emails have a suspicious "sender" email address. For example, the sender's name is "Amazon.co.jp", but the email address is not Amazon's.
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Also, in spoofed emails, the Japanese language of "text" is unnatural. If the grammar or punctuation marks are incorrect or the characters are garbled, which is obviously unnatural, suspect the spoofed email.
To detect spoofed emails, check if the "link in the email" is a suspicious site. If you check the link on a check site such as "Trend MicroSite Safety Center", it should be displayed as "Danger".
In some cases, spoofed emails are reported with the "contact information" phone number. If you search for the contact phone number, you will find information such as "fictitious billing".
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