Tech Tip: Minimize Your Exposure to Email Spoofing

Your mother calls you to ask why you keep emailing her about “enhancements,” and your coworkers complain that you won’t stop sending them ads. Does this sound like you?
A friend of mine recently found himself in this situation, as he began to receive a deluge of “bounced” spam email–spam messages that seemed to have been sent from his email account to invalid email addresses and then returned to the supposed sender. But the email address in question is for an account that my friend rarely uses, and he did not knowingly use it to send any spammy email to anyone. Moreā€¦

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