Spoofing Return Addresses

Trouble ahead and.. trouble behind

Spoofing Return Addresses is One Thing :

A favorite technique of spammers and other “bad guys” is to “spoof” their return e-mail addresses, making it look as if the mail came from someone else. In effect, this is a form of identity theft, as the sender pretends to be someone else in order to persuade the recipient to do something.. anything from simply opening the message to sending money or revealing personal information.

Someone is right now attacking one of our domains in this way.

And we apoligize to those of you recieving this mail that appears to come from us.

We will do our best to fight and defeat this abuse.

It's not right.

And Phishing Is Another :

Note:
“Phishing” – is the practice of attempting to obtain users’ credit card or online banking information, often incorporates e-mail spoofing. For example, a “phisher” may send e-mail that looks as if it comes from the bank’s or credit card’s administrative department, asking the user to log onto a Web page (which purports to be the bank’s or credit card company’s site but really is set up by the “phisher”) and enter passwords, account numbers, and other personal information.

Summery :

Whatever the motivation, the objective of spoofed mail is to hide the real identity of the sender. This can be done because the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) does not require authentication (unlike some other, more secure protocols). A sender can use a fictitious return address or a valid address that belongs to someone else.

It's not right.

We won't express any more feelings here but log into a safe and secure mode of voip communications and you will hear exactly how we feel.

It appears there is little that one can do about these practices at this moment in time.

Sandrose