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 In the example below, the sender is pretending to be your regular contact, trying to trick you to make payment to another bank account. If we look closely on the email, we will notice that the sender email address is "pic@xyzhjk.net" instead of Eric from eric@abcorp.com. Although the mail content looks legitimate, with professional-looking email signature, we should always be careful and double check on the sender email address before we make any response to the sender.  In the example below, the sender is pretending to be your regular contact, trying to trick you to make payment to another bank account. If we look closely on the email, we will notice that the sender email address is "pic@xyzhjk.net" instead of Eric from eric@abcorp.com. Although the mail content looks legitimate, with professional-looking email signature, we should always be careful and double check on the sender email address before we make any response to the sender. 
  
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 In this example, the sender is sending an email using your actual domain or an actual email address from your domain, though it was sent from a different server/IP. Such spoof mails are usually blocked by the server by default, however, if you have [[faq:email:can_i_allow_spoof|turned on the "Allow spoof" option]], then such emails could not be avoided. We strongly recommend to [[faq:email:prevent-email-being-spoofed|disable spoof to increase the security of your email users]]. In this example, the sender is sending an email using your actual domain or an actual email address from your domain, though it was sent from a different server/IP. Such spoof mails are usually blocked by the server by default, however, if you have [[faq:email:can_i_allow_spoof|turned on the "Allow spoof" option]], then such emails could not be avoided. We strongly recommend to [[faq:email:prevent-email-being-spoofed|disable spoof to increase the security of your email users]].
  
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