Email spoofing is the practice of making an email appear to come from a trusted person or organization by manipulating sender identity information.<\/p>\n
Recipients often look first at the displayed sender name. Attackers may use the name of an executive, supplier or known company to make a message look legitimate.<\/p>\n
A message can show a familiar display name while the underlying sender address belongs to an unrelated domain.<\/p>\n
Some attacks attempt to imitate not only a person’s name but also the company’s domain identity, which is why domain authentication is important.<\/p>\n
These mechanisms help receiving systems evaluate whether a message originated from an authorized source. DMARC also evaluates alignment with the domain visible in the From address.<\/p>\n
Payment requests, password-reset messages and unusual instructions should never be trusted solely because the sender name looks familiar.<\/p>\n