How to Recognize Spoofing and Phishing emails

Spoofing refers to the impersonation of a legitimate source of information by an imposter. Spoofing usually occurs for the purpose of fraudulent or illegal activity and appears most frequently as an email message that appears to be from a known source, but is actually from an imposter.

"Phishing" is when someone sends you an electronic message disguised as a trustworthy, legitimate enterprise, in order to trick you into giving them your personal information. It's very easy to fall for this kind of scam if you don't know about it because phishing scams are often very convincing and sound very important. However, with a bit of know-how about how to recognize phishing and protect yourself from it, you can easily keep yourself and your personal information safe.