True" spoofing is when somebody sends an email that looks like it came from someone else. It used to be just spammers, but now it's mostly criminals. Sometimes they use look-alike domains, but a lot of times they actually use your domain name and your email address. Why are crooks spoofing email addresses? They're trying to steal money, of course. According to the FBI and the IC3 website, email-based cybercrime, which they call business email compromise or BEC, is still on the rise. How much on the rise, you ask? Well, here's a pop quiz: one of these next two statements is an actual PSA from the FBI. Here's the first PSA: "Business email compromise, the twelve billion dollar scam." Here's the second one: "Business email compromise, the twenty-six billion dollar scam." It's actually a trick question, they're both FBI PSAs, but do you know the difference between them? Just one year. The FBI started keeping track of statistics like this in 2013, and since then it took about five years for us to get to the twelve billion dollar mark worldwide. Then it only took about one more year to get to the twenty-six billion dollar amount. I'm going to give you a second to think about that and let it sink in because that's crazy, and it's all done via email. If you deal with corporate finance or personnel, then chances are you know exactly what I'm talking about. In fact, you're probably saying to yourself, "Yeah, we get at least three or four of those a month or a week, and our employees usually spot them, but we sure are worried that one of them is going to get through." And you should be worried. Now, if your users are telling you about these emails, then you're...
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