What is E-mail Address Spoofing (Faking, Forging, or joe-jobs)?
“E-mail Address Spoofing” is the one of the oldest and easiet tricks in the spammer’s toolbox. It is the practice used by many spammers to falsify the header information in their e-mail advertisements. By changing the header information someone can make the email appear to come from whoever they choose. Spammers are now routinely stealing the e-mail or Web site identities of many people on the Web, and using them to send millions of pieces of junk advertising or offending e-mails. The average person on the Internet doesn’t yet understand what’s happening here, and many legitimate companies are obviously being victimized. It is important to note that spammers don’t need access to the mail server of the address they are using. All a spammer needs to do is open their e-mail application, go into the configuration options and set the from address to whatever they want. There is no provision in the Internet e-mail protocols in use today to validate or authenicate that any particular user has
